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> SA MacLaughlin would like to recall the message, "Language Survey".
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From sieler2 Wed May  7 15:22:06 1997
Subject: MPE Language Survey

Hi all,

I'm taking a survey of what languages are in use on the HP3000, for use in some
advocacy discussions with HP.

I'm interested in knowing roughly how many lines of source code you have in
any of the following *Native Mode* compiled languages (not interpreters!):

  assembler     (HP's or GNU gas)
  Business BASIC/iX
  C/iX          (HP's C, not gcc)
  C++           (HP's C++, cross compiled from HP-UX)
  COBOL/iX
  FORTRAN/iX
  gcc           (GNU C)
  Pascal/iX
  RPG/iX
  SPLash!
  Transact/iX
  other         (any other Native Mode *compiled* language I may have missed)

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I'll summarize results and post them.

thanks!

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and then, later,..


I'm looking for rough estimates, trying to gather evidence to show
HP that there's interest in the user community to:

   1) improve support COBOL:
        a) continuing optimizer improvements for COBOL/iX;
        b) implement future (current?) COBOL standards;
        c) moving COBOL/iX to HP-UX;
        d) support efficient third-party COBOLs compilers on MPE
           and HP-UX, with COBOL/iX compatibility;

   2) improve support for C/iX (aka: move existing HP-UX C to MPE/iX):
        a) provide missing C functionality (e.g., 64-bit integers)
        b) provide better optimization

      (The MPE and HP-UX C compilers used to be identical ... compiled
      from the same source code.  A few years ago, the MPE version was
      essentially frozen.  Since then, HP-UX C has had new language
      features and two new (and higher) levels of optimization added.)

   3) optionally emit PA-RISC 8000 specific code for COBOL/iX, Pascal/iX,
      and C/iX.  (Potentially significant performance increase)


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