Re: RPG from IBM's Perspective -- RPG400-L

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Comments in-line Nathan.

On 27-Jun-09, at 1:00 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Well, presumably the legacy compilers don't require much R&D.

That do require some work but admittedly not as much as the new ones.
But that's not the point. Applying your logic the legacy compilers
should cost only 10% or so (if not less) of the price of the current
ones - but that's not how it is. Pricing is used for many things, and
particularly in the computer industry rarely has much to do with cost.
Pricing can, and should, be used to encourage people to upgrade. All
the current pricing does is encourage management to stay in the past.

What computer company other than IBM charges for its compilers? The
MSFT C# and VB compilers are part of the Windows OS ( or .NET
framework ). With the compiler built into the OS, you can write apps
which compile and run code on the fly. .NET has some nice classes that
do that.

If IBM cant afford to maintain its compilers, I suggest they open source them.

-Steve

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