Talk:Integrated Language Environment

ILE languages

@Guy Harris: ILE languages are languages which are supported under ILE. They are C, C++, RPG, COBOL and CL.

Conversely, non-ILE languages are languages which were never supported under ILE, only ever under OPM or EPM. In terms of which languages IBM shipped, according to this there were:

OPM	RPG
	COBOL
	CL
	BASIC
	PL/1
EPM	C
	Pascal
	FORTRAN
ILE	C
	C++
	RPG
	COBOL
	CL

So you can see, among the IBM-shipped languages, BASIC, PL/1, Pascal and FORTRAN are the non-ILE languages, because IBM never released ILE compilers for them, only ever EPM or OPM. When I said "non-ILE languages", I was referring to those four languages. Their compilers are no longer available from IBM (back in the 1990s they were still available as PRPQ, but I doubt even that by now.) IBM has recommended code written in them be rewritten in an ILE language. (In the case of FORTRAN at least, another alternative is to port the FORTRAN code to run in PASE instead.) You can also call languages which only run under PASE, such as Java (at least in recent versions, older versions were a bit different), Python, PHP, node.js, etc, as non-ILE languages, but unlike OPM/EPM-only languages, PASE-only languages are not considered deprecated. Mr248 (talk) 02:51, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

"When I said "non-ILE languages", I was referring to those four languages." Then that belongs in the article, not in a comment on the talk page.