C was driven by: The limitations of the PDP-7
The availability of a free compiler. Making BSL and PL.S available as program products wouldn't have affected those factors. Also, while C is less portable than PL/I, it is more portable than GENERATE. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: looking for 'how to' developing Rexx host command On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:32:35 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >+1 for MetalC. Puts it all under your control. > I don't know the chronology, but I wonder whether if IBM had made PL/S a product early enough, C would never have happened. >+10 for SAMPLIB members in MetalC, not that any such are very likely to be >provided in what's left of our working lifetimes. > An alternative an executable example in a User's Guide. I learned the HLASM I/O exits from an example I copied/pasted from a manual. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
