Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:23:07 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: [Criticism] On the discussion about C++ modules |
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:38:13AM -0700, Stephen Satchell wrote: > At 01:30 PM 10/22/00 +0200, you wrote: > >Yup. And I want to try out my modules coded in Visual Cobol, APL, > >and PL/I. Oh, and I want to rewrite ext2fs to use Befunge. > > Would that be PL/I (F) or PL/I (H}? You have different footprint > problems with each of these levels. You will also need to write some > glue code to translate PL/I data structures to kernel structures.
Both of course...
> Don't forget the 2000-line SED script to deal with namespace > conversion in the PL/I object output.
Oh, and why should *I* have to write any conversion-routines and glue code? Of course, someone else should rewrite the kernel to suit my needs...
> (I still have my 30-year-old PL/I documentation from my mainframe days, > including the compiler program logic manual.)
Cooool! S/370 programmer?
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