• Iron Spring PL/I Preprocessor

    From Iron Spring Software@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 24 19:34:08 2021
    Feb 15, 2021

    Iron Spring Software introduces a pre-alpha version of the
    Iron Spring PL/I Preprocessor (ISPP).
    ISPP is intended to be a backward-compatible version of the IBM 2.3 preprocessor, with a few features borrowed from IBM Enterprise PL/I and
    other sources.

    ISPP has successfully run a number of tests, and has produced the same
    output as the preprocessor from IBM VisualAge PL/I for Windows.
    Unfortunately the amount of working preprocessor code available for
    testing is limited. As a pre-alpha ISPP is liable to produce incorrect
    output or fail spectacularly in unanticipated circumstances.

    We will be preforming additional testing, and adding a few features that
    should improve usability. Nevertheless we are releasing it now in hope
    that people with interest or experience in using the PL/I preprocessor
    will experiment with it and provide feedback. No guarantees are made,
    expressed or implied.

    Currently ISPP is Linux-only. An OS/2 version should follow shortly.

    ISPP can be downloaded from our download page:
    http://www.Iron-Spring.com/download/

    Bugs should be reported to:
    mailto:bugs@iron-spring.com?Subject=ISPP
    (success reports welcomed also)

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?w4FycMOhZCBMdWvDoWNz?=@21:1/5 to bearlyabus...@gmail.com on Sun Feb 28 10:43:13 2021
    The link gives a 404.

    On Thursday, 25 February 2021 at 03:34:10 UTC+1, bearlyabus...@gmail.com wrote:
    Feb 15, 2021

    Iron Spring Software introduces a pre-alpha version of the
    Iron Spring PL/I Preprocessor (ISPP).
    ISPP is intended to be a backward-compatible version of the IBM 2.3 preprocessor, with a few features borrowed from IBM Enterprise PL/I and
    other sources.

    ISPP has successfully run a number of tests, and has produced the same
    output as the preprocessor from IBM VisualAge PL/I for Windows.
    Unfortunately the amount of working preprocessor code available for
    testing is limited. As a pre-alpha ISPP is liable to produce incorrect
    output or fail spectacularly in unanticipated circumstances.

    We will be preforming additional testing, and adding a few features that should improve usability. Nevertheless we are releasing it now in hope
    that people with interest or experience in using the PL/I preprocessor
    will experiment with it and provide feedback. No guarantees are made, expressed or implied.

    Currently ISPP is Linux-only. An OS/2 version should follow shortly.

    ISPP can be downloaded from our download page: http://www.Iron-Spring.com/download/

    Bugs should be reported to:
    mailto:bu...@iron-spring.com?Subject=ISPP
    (success reports welcomed also)

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  • From John W Kennedy@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 28 14:28:28 2021
    On 2/28/21 1:43 PM, Árpád Lukács wrote:
    The link gives a 404.

    On Thursday, 25 February 2021 at 03:34:10 UTC+1, bearlyabus...@gmail.com wrote:
    Feb 15, 2021

    Iron Spring Software introduces a pre-alpha version of the
    Iron Spring PL/I Preprocessor (ISPP).
    ISPP is intended to be a backward-compatible version of the IBM 2.3
    preprocessor, with a few features borrowed from IBM Enterprise PL/I and
    other sources.

    ISPP has successfully run a number of tests, and has produced the same
    output as the preprocessor from IBM VisualAge PL/I for Windows.
    Unfortunately the amount of working preprocessor code available for
    testing is limited. As a pre-alpha ISPP is liable to produce incorrect
    output or fail spectacularly in unanticipated circumstances.

    We will be preforming additional testing, and adding a few features that
    should improve usability. Nevertheless we are releasing it now in hope
    that people with interest or experience in using the PL/I preprocessor
    will experiment with it and provide feedback. No guarantees are made,
    expressed or implied.

    Currently ISPP is Linux-only. An OS/2 version should follow shortly.

    ISPP can be downloaded from our download page:
    http://www.Iron-Spring.com/download/

    Bugs should be reported to:
    mailto:bu...@iron-spring.com?Subject=ISPP
    (success reports welcomed also)

    http://www.iron-spring.com/download.html

    --
    John W. Kennedy
    "The blind rulers of Logres
    Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
    -- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"

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  • From Peter Flass@21:1/5 to John W Kennedy on Sun Feb 28 14:12:48 2021
    John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 2/28/21 1:43 PM, Árpád Lukács wrote:
    The link gives a 404.

    On Thursday, 25 February 2021 at 03:34:10 UTC+1, bearlyabus...@gmail.com wrote:
    Feb 15, 2021

    Iron Spring Software introduces a pre-alpha version of the
    Iron Spring PL/I Preprocessor (ISPP).
    ISPP is intended to be a backward-compatible version of the IBM 2.3
    preprocessor, with a few features borrowed from IBM Enterprise PL/I and
    other sources.

    ISPP has successfully run a number of tests, and has produced the same
    output as the preprocessor from IBM VisualAge PL/I for Windows.
    Unfortunately the amount of working preprocessor code available for
    testing is limited. As a pre-alpha ISPP is liable to produce incorrect
    output or fail spectacularly in unanticipated circumstances.

    We will be preforming additional testing, and adding a few features that >>> should improve usability. Nevertheless we are releasing it now in hope
    that people with interest or experience in using the PL/I preprocessor
    will experiment with it and provide feedback. No guarantees are made,
    expressed or implied.

    Currently ISPP is Linux-only. An OS/2 version should follow shortly.

    ISPP can be downloaded from our download page:
    http://www.Iron-Spring.com/download/

    Bugs should be reported to:
    mailto:bu...@iron-spring.com?Subject=ISPP
    (success reports welcomed also)

    http://www.iron-spring.com/download.html


    If you haven’t it yet, hold off for a few days. The original version has a greater than expected number of bugs.

    --
    Pete

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