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[Jon.Paris@xxxxxx]

 >> Ah, but if the MI code is available, who needs PL?

This is positively my last post on the subject 'cos its clear that some
folks are more interested in conspiracy theories than the truth.  Where's
Simon when I need him <grin>

First PL/MI is _not_ MI  (and before anyone asks - no its not that much
like PL/I either)

The MI in the name means that it is the version of IBM's internal PL/x
language that _targets_ MI as its intermediate language.    Other than in
maintenance mode I think IBM does very little with it these days - all new
code is in C, C++ or Java and compiles out to W-code.

Even if IBM gave you the MI you wouldn't want to work with it.  A lot of it
is generated from macros and doesn't produce the prettiest or most
maintainable of code - that's why IBM used a higher level language.  I'm
not certain about SEU but the compilers have to be rebuilt for each new
release because of system changes.  They don't often have to change the
code because the macros take care of that - something else you'd have to
deal with if you worked at the MI level.

At the end of the day you'd have lousy hard to maintain code - and for what
? - the joys of 1960s (date?) technology block mode terminal editing -
whoop de do! I can hardly contain my excitement.  Yes the sarcasm is
intended!

As I said before - if IBM withdraw SEU you've got a (small) beef -
otherwise ...........

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