Re: is nmi translator off limits?

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Richter wrote:
. . .
> I am alluding to the 2 step process that a programmer has to execute to
> create an ile program. 1st step is create the module, 2nd step is
> create the program. This lengthens the learning process of a new
> programmer, increases the chances for bugs, ups the complexity all
> around.
. . .

Dear Mr. Richter, et al.:

Strange you should think so. In the vast majority of development
environments I've worked with, the use of linkage editors or linking
loaders has been universal wherever directly executable code was the
ultimate product. Sometimes the "link" stage is hidden from the
developer, and sometimes it's out in the open, but in most of the
mainframe environments I've worked with, and all of the microcomputer
environments, the only time it was absent was if an interpretive runtime
was involved.

Environments like OS/400 OPM, where dynamically-linked calls are both
ubuquitous and absurdly simple to code, and statically-linked ones are
unheard-of, have been very much the exception in my own experience.

-- 
James H. H. Lampert
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