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>in order to allow programs >to run on different hardware without re-compiling. I've always had a problem with this statement. Remove observability and how far do you get on hardware changes? Aren't you really recompiling the program under the covers. Granted, observability doesn't store the actual RPG source code (or cobol, or MI, or...) but it does store the program template from which the "real" program is created, or recreated, no? The template is in effect the real source code, and the compilers are simply translates from RPG, cobol, mi, etc. to the template. Now, I do give Frank and the others great respect for knowing enough to store the program template, and not rely on the "original" source code. But is it really fair to say you're not recompiling the code? -Walden ------------ Walden H Leverich III President & CEO Tech Software (516) 627-3800 x11 WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.TechSoftInc.com Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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