RE: FYI - Press Inquiry: AS/400 Tenth Anniversary.

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden,

You'ld be surprised (as was I!) just how many people have systems written
in PL/I and BASIC running on a 400!

And (Jon/Al double check me here) I think that with v4r2 both languages
are history...

Don in DC



On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Walden Leverich wrote:

> Don,
> 
> It's not gone (PL/I) it's just not an LPP anymore. If you want it you
> can ask IBM for it and they will be more than happy to provide it to you
> (for a price). By taking it off the LPP list all IBM did was remove
> their requirement to translate the documentation in to the 39 (or so)
> different national languages. It's only available in English now.
> 
> -Walden
> 
> PS. I'm not sure about Basic's status, but who cares, it's basic.
> 
> 10  print "hello"
> 20  goto 10 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don [mailto:dr2@access.digex.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 8:45 PM
> To: Dave Mahadevan
> Cc: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: FYI - Press Inquiry: AS/400 Tenth Anniversary.
> 
> 
> 
> Dave, 
> 
> As of V4r2 you have lost the best language out there...PL/I (or the
> subset
> implementation of the best language out there....).  ...ditto for
> BASIC...
> 
> Don in DC metro...
> 
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