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Re: Trend towards platform specific languages

Don't forget 96 column cards...

On 10/7/05 06:13 PM, "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To take my earlier National Model Railroad Association
> comparison a step further, and into the realm of a genuine
> analogy, what the NMRA founders did was as if we all got
> together and demanded that IBM (1) abandon all the slick
> bells and whistles in InfoCenter that just plain don't
> work, and go back to the Softcopy Library, (2) resume
> making Twinax terminals, (3) publish the specs for WP
> mode, (4) develop Twinax-based versions of all the things
> that currently require either OpsConsole, OpsNav, or the
> Administrative HTTP server, and (5) come out with an
> ILE-based Full-ANSI PL/I compiler, AND IBM ACTUALLY
> COMPLIED WITH THE DEMANDS.
> 
> --
> JHHL

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