On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> A wild guess is that what they mean is "IBM does not provide any HLL APIs." > IMO, what they mean is that there is not any syntactical language element which encompasses the hiperspace API at a native language level. Example, COBOL has a SORT verb which directly implements a language interface to the "sort" function. As opposed to doing a CALL 'ICEMAIN' in order to interface to a sort routine. > > Thus, they cannot use them "directly" -- someone would have to write a > glue layer. > As above, via some sort of CALL type interface to a routine written in HLASM. The way that a lot on LE functions can be called using some CEE3* routine. > > Just a guess. > > The definition of HLL is "any language that does not have an API for > hiperspaces." <g> > > Charles > -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
