RE: PL/I Visibility.

As I understand it, IBM was looking at dropping PL/I support. However, 
after several large customer screamed they revised that decision. PL/I is 
now available as a PRPQ not a LPP. The difference? IBM does not need to 
translate PRPQs into all the supported national languages. So if you want 
PL/I you can get it, but only in English.

-Walden

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Walden Leverich
Tech Software
walden@techsoftinc.com
www.techsoftinc.com

-----Original Message-----
From:   Rick Baird [SMTP:rbbaird@premsys.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, November 04, 1997 7:41 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: PL/I Visibility.

Vern Hamberg wrote:

> JMHO
>
> I get extremely frustrated when programming examples are only written
> in PL/I. This can often happen in redbooks. I wasn't around when PL/I
> had a chance, and the fact is that we don't have the product on any of
> our machines-or, like REXX, is it on all 400's without IBM telling us?

I think I read somewhere that IBM was dropping support for pl/1 on the
400.

Funny thing, I also remember something about the fact that OS/400 was
originally written using pl/1.

rick
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