RE: open source rpg compiler

["Richard B Baird" <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with this statement and as well as one from a previous post.

If the compiler went open-source, IBM would be less apt to make
improvements to it.  since the ILE compiler appeared, they've been
extremely agressive in advancing the language, and I can't imagine that
open-sourcing it could improve on that rate.

Add to that the politics and buracracy involved in setting up and
administering a linux style approval and certification process, it would be
years before it would be effective, allowing a true open-source
improvements standard to evolve.

rick

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Mark said

4)  I believe that we would end up w/ a bunch of non-standard plug-in
libraries, instead of an across the board standard that we can rely on.  I
for one don't want to have to make sure that I have the latest library
plug-in every time a feature is needed.