Subj : PL/I now on OS/2 (announcement)
To   : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Mon Jun 23 2008 11:11 pm

From robin_v@bigpond.com Sat Jun 14 10:55:39 2008 Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 
10:55:39 GMT
From: robin <robin_v@bigpond.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: PL/I now on OS/2 (announcement)

A new  ALPHA version of the Iron Spring PL/I compiler for OS/2 is now available 
for free download at:  http://www.iron-spring.com

This is the sixth alpha version.  It is still missing many features, but is 
working well enough to compile itself and its runtime library. The "release 
notes" included in the package document some, but not all, of the current 
restrictions. The 1.0 release is expected to be roughly a "Subset G" compiler. 
Eventually the compiler will handle the full PL/I language plus extensions from 
other compilers.

Following the OS/2 version a Linux version is planned.

Version 0.6a implements the %REPLACE preprocessor statement, adds the
'FROMALIEN' procedure option to allow calls to PL/I from other
languages, and packages the runtime library as a DLL and import library in 
addition to the previously distributed static object library.

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