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Subject: java to RPG problem
From: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:35:48 -0500
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 >> I guess making it an ILE language was too problematic for IBM.

If "problematic" includes "too expensive" you are correct.  The fact that
the compiler was written in PL/MI would have been a major problem.  COBOL
and RPG were rewritten in C for the ILE versions, and CL isn't really a
compiler anyway.  The biggest problem however was cost.  There were probably
only about 100 active licenses of the PL/I compiler out there.  Difficult to
justify even _shipping_ it each release let alone building a new version.
If it wasn't for Synon and a couple of other big users it would have dies
long ago.

Jon Paris
Partner400

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