RE: open source rpg compiler

["Henk Schipper" <hs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry... here I disagree. I know a lot of people, who like me, favors
opensource. When the rpg-ile compiler becomes opensource, we can
crossplatform this language. This opens perspectives. I think that
supporting the rpg-ile to opensource is the way to go. It will keep the
language alive.

Henk.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 12:39 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: open source rpg compiler


>I am suggesting that IBM open/free source
>the compiler so that 3rd party software houses
>can enhance and sell a derived, open or
>closed source, compiler.

With the utmost respect, I suggest that this is unrealistic.  When people
don't use the advanced compiler (RPG IV or C or Cobol) that
_they_already_paid_for_ it seems to prove that there really is no iSeries
market for advanced languages.  Ask Paul Conte sometime about his RPG/free.
I'd love to be able to see the compiler's guts, and I'd love to see IBM
management open it up, but I don't think there's much more than curiosity
value to be had by it.
  --buck
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