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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
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- Subject: Re: PL/S etc
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.211409.17527@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 21:14:09 GMT
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- In article <30DEC92.10295830.0009.MUSIC@UTMARTN> ##09@UTMARTN.BITNET (Larry Holder) writes:
- >Maybe when it becomes generally available, we can drop the speculations
- >about PL/S, and zero in on the practical application of the new features
- >the assembler will provide. The advent of the new assembler seems to
- >me to be comparable with the initial release of REXX, as far as showing
- >how IBM can break thru with a truly redesigned product, and largely due
- >to grass-roots efforts.
-
- The difference is that Rexx was provided at no cost just when VM was
- really taking off, while the HLA is provided at extra cost when people
- are thinking about shutting down mainframes. How on earth is one supposed
- to make a business case for spending serious money on this product?
- I mean, at my last job (before I quit) I couldn't even convince them to
- get the (free) SLAC assembler mods, let alone CMS pipelines.
- When will IBM learn the lesson from Unix that the more system programming
- tools you bundle in, the more useful bits of software get written for the
- system?
-