Shane:
You have to look at as a fellow who made some serious money doing what he liked. Agreed on a proprietary compiler and hardware but you somehow have to guard again theft. I have seen this is this industry once at another ISV. Once was enough. My original point was if a vendor says you can write ‘exits’ for example is C, at least show some examples. I am not picking on IBM. If you cant say that also, makes our life in development a lot easier. I agree with Walt about a complex system and complex code. Is like having one maintenance day a month and a ton of products changing, big problems , you cant tell what did what to whom. Testing helps. But organization and planning help more. Regards, Scott From: Shane Ginnane Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:21 PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:05:20 -0600, Mark Post wrote: >Linux was initially written in C for whatever reason (most likely ease of >coding and availability of a compiler), initially. And the fact that it was (initially) written by one fella holed up in his bedroom. We are all predisposed to particular favourites. > ... given the fact that IBM isn't interested in porting z/OS (including RACF > and the like) to other hardware platforms, they'd be insane to start coding > large chunks of it in C. Hard to disagree - proprietary code running on proprietary hardware using a proprietary compiler. Might be nice if they let us use that compiler though ... Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
