The Rascal Pascal! >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/19/2006 8:25 PM >>> Post, Mark K wrote: > Yes, it was intended to be a part of the GCC suite at some point in the > future. At the time I compiled and tested it, the compiler was not yet > to the point of generating any code. All it was doing was syntax > checking. I doubt very much it would ever generate code that would be > usable on z/VM, unless someone like Neale decided it was worth his time > and effort. ;)
It seems to me the folk who use PL/1 and COBOL are not the kinds of folk who write compilers. I'm sure if some of the Big Corps here could dedicate one person each to the project, even to the point of hiring a graduate with the skills to code and debug compilers, that serious progress could be made fairly quickly. One person, who sits with PL/1 or COBOL programmers, so they know what he's doing, and I predict some of them will try it and report what doesn't work. Does your country have special tax concessions for R&D that might apply to such a project? Is one person too much for Big Corps benefiting form the use of OSS? Pascal too is struggling. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ Please do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
