> Thanks for the info on this, PL/1 has been, for myself at > least, an extremely flexible and robust language on OS/390 > and Z/OS and it's good to know there's yet another option for > coding on machines running LINUX.
Yep. Beats Fortran and COBOL all to heck. > At one time, IBM had a version of the PL/1 compiler for MVS > that had some debugging tools embedded in it for. I don't > know if this party has planned any debugging tools to go > along with it, and I'm not sure if IBM has plans to port > their current PL/1 debugger to this platform. I would strongly doubt it. The VS PL/1 compiler and debugger used a lot of OS-specific stuff to do it's job, and it'd be almost a complete rewrite from scratch to make it work on Linux. Besides, you'd have to convince a lot of people that the existing Linux debuggers aren't good enough or can't be taught the necessary new tricks to work -- my vote would be teaching gdb and friends how to cope and abandoning the OS PL/1 debugger. It's less work, and you're more likely to have support from the community. > I'll check with > our development to see if in the future we may plan to > support debugging PL/1 on this platform (already do on > OS/390)...we do see a lot of PL/1 users out there... I don't think it's going to be a sustainable business case, though. The number of people who know how to program in PL/1 is decreasing rapidly (let alone people who even know what it IS), and (IMHO) PL/1 on Linux is a transition aid to C, not a long term investment (down, Java freaks! Back, I say! Back!). It'd be a good question to ask the Eclipse maintainers, though. If Eclipse learned about PL/1 syntax and debugging stabs, it'd be a really nice environment for developing code to run on OS or CMS. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
