Subject: Re: free PL/I
From: "David Frank" <***@hotmail.com>, Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 05:42:25 GMT
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Post by robinPost by David FrankPost by robinThere are at least 3 free PL/I compilers available.
IRT: Windows XP compilers..
Only the IBM Visual Age 2.0 trial download is free and supports Windows
(somewhat)..
BUT it wont accept the ISUB code you posted yesterday...
AND your so-called FAQ has no warnings about IBM's pending cancellations
of PL/I compiler support, why is that?
Here again, we've caught you out in another lie, haven't we !!
IBM has not and is not cancelling PL/I compiler support.
Au contraire, IBM continues to support
PL/I for Windows, Enterprise PL/I, and VA PL/I.
You know this, and have been told this many times.
Subject: Re: PL/I plug-pulling proceeds
Why dont you start "telling it like it is" that PL/I has NO future !!!
1. AIX PL/I support withdrawal is scheduled Sept 2005.
2. Visual Age PL/I v2.1 Windows NT support withdrawal is scheduled April 2006.
3. Personal PL/I (the only affordable PL/I) support has been withdrawn, and there
is no longer a buy link thats active. The only way it can be purchased is via
knowing its product # , and all you get is a download, NO hard-copy
reference manual.
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You lied then, and you're lying now.
In June, when you fabricated the above, Bill Klein told you:
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"Subject: Re: IBM's committment to PL/I (was: PL/I plug-pulling proceeds
"From: "William M. Klein" <***@nospam.netcom.com>, EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
"Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:36:34 GMT
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"And you are wrong (then and now). As I said, see the referenced April 2004
"Announcement
"--
"Bill Klein wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"David Frank" <***@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:EjVzc.113196$***@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
"> "William M. Klein" <***@nospam.netcom.com> wrote in message
"> news:qBHzc.1409$***@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
"> > Did you READ the referenced announcement?
"> > IBM is happily enhancing both COBOL and PL/I on "workstations" - as
"> > indicated in
"> > the April 2004 Announcement. Of course it is a new named product - so this may
"> > be too difficult for Mr. Frank to understand.
"> > Please provide a reference to IBM's latest Fortran offering on Windows.
"> > --
"> Several months back, I alerted the fact that IBM was apparently withdrawing ALL
"> language support for Windows, and apparently Cobol is included..