From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-10-13T06:48:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. Rails

On 10/12/06, John W. Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> > I don't recall seeing an open
> > source PL/I compiler.
>
> There have been some efforts to genericize the old (F) compiler (though
> it was written in assembler), which IBM published freely back in the
> 60's, when virtually all software was more or less open source,

Only in the sense that the source was available, most commonly on
microfiche, and primarily to help you read dumps so you could debug
your, and often IBM's software.

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Rick DeNatale

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