On 1 Nov 2007 17:43:12 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Ed Gould wrote: >On Nov 1, 2007, at 6:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>> >> LE-independent, I see. Would it likewise be independent of >> Run Time Library license encumbrances, so ISVs could distribute >> compiled code to customers without the compiler licensed, and >> free of prelinker entanglements so the full facility of SMP/E >> maintenance with fine granularity could be exploited? >> >> Thanks, >> gil > >Paul, > >As you probably know I am NOT an LE fan. That being said, I would >think it would be close to impossible to come up with a "subroutine" >library that could be common across all the products that you would >envision. Trying to maintain something that is OS release independent >and language independent. Especially if you envision this to be cross >vendor as it is POSITIVELY will come up, that it will work with one >release of a vendors product and not with another's release. The >complications of trying to do so would, IMO would be close to >impossible. IBM can't do it themselves with LE what makes you think >when you add other vendors it could be done? > >IBM did a half way credible job with the old cobol subroutine library >it really did work across many versions of MVS without any issue I >ever heard of. The PC weenies thought they could do it with LE and >they fell flat on their faces.
Don't blame PC weenies for LE. It was most probably in response to the Guide/SHARE (or SHARE/Guide) Language Futures Task Force which was co-chaired by John Ehrman and someone from Guide. I was a member of that task force with most participants more knowledgeable than me and am suffering a senior moment because I don't remember the names of most of the participants. This task force met in the early 1980's.. > >Perhaps if it did not call on any system services it would be >possible but then there are some services are so tightly ingrained >that anything changed would create versioning issues, UGH! > >Ed > Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
