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

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Steve Richter wrote:

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?

Probably. But so what? ILE does what it does. JVM does what it does. As
others pointed out, why the heck should they be any more tightly
integrated that they are now? Do they have to be as tightly integrated
as traditional Windows .EXE programs with CLI apps? Just to shut up some
annoying .NET programmer? Dream on!

Cheers! Hans

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