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Well, for anyone who is looking for "almost RPG" and a " HLL high level language solution that would not be too foreign for RPG developers",
there is always MicroFocus COBOL. I think you would be swimming upstream against resistance.
https://www.microfocus.com/products/visual-cobol/personal-edition/ and its IDE on Eclipse
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Just out of curiosity, does anyone think there is a use for an emulation environment that could run on PC or laptop? Forget about the legal can of worms it would open: If someone had a bunch of time and money to develop such a tool, would anyone use it?
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It's been done in the past with items like Baby/36 and it's successors.
The biggest problem in the past with those, in the past anyway, was that many of us were not interested in solely a straight RPG only solution.
Some of those didn't even support CL. Now when you start throwing in all the other stuff like APIs, PASE, etc it just starts getting much more complex.
It also becomes really questionable as to whether something like that would be around long enough to be dependable. And if it would keep upgrading itself to stay current with TR's, new releases, etc. And how much they would have to charge to have certain levels of functionality.
And is having a risky solution like that worth it just to have something onsite vs the cloud?
What is the goal of this? To run on less expensive commodity hardware?
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They made a EDT open source edition but untill now IBM is supporting it:
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/rational-business-developer
Still waiting for IBM statement about dropping or a new version.
Didn't IBM drop EGL? I never really saw the benefit so I've not paid close attention.
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