On 13 October 2016 at 14:47, Bill Woodger <bill.wood...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No, it doesn't turn the machine-code (ESA/370) into anything intermediate.
Are you quite sure? > Yes, it knows something of the internals, and yes it knows things it can and > can't do with that knowledge. > > "There is much more to go wrong in the ABO process" > > Why, and with what supporting information? As I said, the JVM class file format is extremely well documented, and was designed to be interpreted and verified. The output of various old COBOL compilers much less so. Well, no, I don't have the negative supporting evidence (lack of doc on the COBOL object code), but I'm willing to bet... To be clear, I think ABO is a great idea with great potential. And probably it works really well. But if worked at a bank or insurance company, I wouldn't be quick to say "oh it's still the same program, it'll work fine, just bang it into production". Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
