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  3. September 2002

Re: ILE philosophy

Buck,

>My limited understanding is that if IBM provides all the tools there would
>be no third party tools market.

My limited understanding is that the budget is limited.  IBM can't provide all
the tools without charging more, and it is not clear everyone wants to pay more.
To me a classic example would be conversion programs for RPG/400 syntax to RPG
IV.

IBM provides a bare-bones conversion, but doesn't spend Toronto's limited
dollars on something the market can easily provide.  The lab's dollars are
better spent adding functionality to the language.

Ditto for free-format conversions.  IBM provides the support for free-format,
but the market provides tools to help retrofit existing code.  (The conversion
in CODE/400 notwithstanding.)

Doug

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