Re: what was the single mgmt decision made in mid-1990s that slowed the evolution of ILE/RPG?

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 27-Feb-09, at 10:13 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

... Unfortunately, it hasn't
evolved quickly or far enough and, if I am to believe people I have
worked with that were on the original ILE team at IBM, that could go
down to a single management decision back in the mid-1990s on how far
to take the language. ...

You still seem to be wrestling with this so let me spell it out as
simply as I can Steve.

what I would like to understand is if system software architects
define the components of an OS as strictly as it appears. ILE does
this and that. nothing else. Programming languages have their own call
stacks and dont concern themselves with interoping with another
language module. Something like Java with its many useful features
like reflection, inheritance and garbage collection, is to be walled
off from the rest of the system in a JVM. SQL - same thing. The fact
that SQL procedures dont throw exceptions back to the caller when they
bomb, or dont log their activity to the joblog like CL programs do -
that is a problem. It limits the functionality of the resulting
application.

Did the ILE people in the mid 90s report to IBM mgmt that their work was done?