Re: ILE vs CLI. was V5R3 -- MIDRANGE-L

× The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.

Booth Martin wrote:

This isn't clear to me. CLI now does what ILE has been doing for 5+ years? What does CLI do that ILE doesn't already do? Is CLI open source, available for all platforms?

It isn't entirely clear to me either, but CLI basically does what the Java runtime environment has done for about the past 10 years. CLI is basically MS's re-invention of the JRE. I don't believe MS's implementation of CLI is open source, but the definition has been submitted to ECMA for standardization. One open-source project, Mono (http://www.go-mono.com/), includes a CLI virtual machine that runs on a number of platforms.

ILE on the other hand, is basically a beefed up system for static binding of modules, something which has existed in other operating systems for decades. I first encountered the concept of static binding in 1977 programming in Pascal and assembler on the RT-11 O/S running on a meager PDP-11/03. But the concept goes back much further.

So basically, you're comparing apples and oranges when you try to compare CLI and ILE.

Cheers! Hans

This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].

Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.