RE: lack of usable new OS features

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From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com

>Steve Richter wrote, among many fine suggestions:
> scrap ile
> and all those who proposed it
>I half think this was a joke, tucked in there to see whether we were
>paying attention.  If not, what's wrong with ILE?

No joking on this list Martin.

ILE is too complicated.  One of the advances of the s38 over all other
systems was the simplicity of the pgm call model.  No link edit needed.
Easy to modularize your appl, very good facilities for seeing your code in
action.  As someone who does not use rpg much anymore I find I cant debug or
read an rpg/ile application without assistance ( not the code, just
following the pgm flow. )

The performance hit seen as you make your functions more and more granular
could be solved two ways.  First with more cpu. The 2nd is an idea that I
proposed on the MI list last year that I called the module call.  The single
level store has features untapped by ibm. One is the ability to branch to
code in any object on the system. Code in a usrspc for instance. Because of
the SLS the performance of such a branch is the same as copying bytes to or
from the space.  instantaneous.  It gets kind of involved: call stack
structure, argument addressability, object resolution perspective, cant
assemble code on the fly, etc. But the idea is for standalone library level
code modules that retain the simplicity of the pgm call model but with the
speed of the SLS addressing scheme.

Steve

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