Re: Learning SEU, Source members, etc for the non I programmer?

Trust me you do NOT want to see the source code for SEU. There’s an awful lot of chewing gum and baler twine in there!

Then there is the teeny tiny problem that it is written in PL/MI for which (as far as I know) no compiler exists outside of IBM - so that would be a problem.

If anyone is going to expend energy on an editor wouldn’t it make more sense to contribute to RPGNextGen (http://www.rpgnextgen.com/) so you at least have a free editor that a modern programmer would feel comfortable with? Does any young programmer really want a warmed over SEU? None of the ones I’ve taught would - they all shudder at the thought.

On Oct 15, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

2. Not so practical. A lot of greenscreeners like SEU. Some small subset
have some intricate knowlege of system level programming, or at least the
capability to learn. Has anyone asked IBM to release SEU as open source?
Maybe since you have a hard screen size limitation with the 5250 terminal
you could never make SEU as productive as lets say VIM (a unix cmdline text
editor that is similarly weird), but I think you could still make something
that a power user would be extremely productive in.

Jon Paris

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