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  3. November 2002

Re: COBOL lives

From: Simon Coulter <shc@flybynight.com.au>
> Hello Leif,
> You wrote:
> >I don't know of ANYBODY having written a compiler for
> >the iSeries except IBM.
>
> Logitech wrote a Modula-2 compiler for IBM internal use years ago.  It
> was (is) used for Query Management and, I believe, some parts of SLIC.
>

Thanks (we are getting small pieces of history).
Presumably Logitech got to use the secret APIs to create
programs that the rest of us (outside of IBM and not working
to produce stuff for IBM internal use) have no access to.
That was my point.

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