I found this post quite interesting. I wrote lots of PL/AS code in the 1980's and 90's when I worked for IBM. I still have a lot of the code but have no way to compile it with TK4-. I had never heard of Rand's RL/S until today. Did Rand ever release their RL/S compiler to the public? It would be fun to see my PL/AS code could be adapted to compile with RL/S.
Charles Bailey
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On 2024-01-15 05:24, Giuseppe Vitillaro wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024, Joe Monk wrote:
Peppe,
"Still curious about how this game is played, being METALC, GCC or
even PL/S, if even such compiler would be available, would
make any difference?"
PL/S hasnt?been used in decades. The modern version is PL/X-390. :)
Apologies, I'm not "updated" on PL languages ;-)
I'm more a C/UNIX guy as you know.
Any way, I would be glad anyway to have access to the Rand's PL/S
compiler under MVS3.8j, if there is a way to use it on
an ancient platform.
For what I've seen, it would be a nice way to gain a better
understanding of this game, although I'm a little bit aged
to become as proficient as I'm in C using PL/I like languages.
But for what I'm reading here
this compiler may be defined ... a "chimera"?
Weird IBM in the XXI century is still so jelaous
about this compiler when IBM itself seems moving in the C direction with METALC.
Or I misunderstand and PL/X-390 is still the main road
under Z/OS?
Peppe.
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