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From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering)
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Subject: Re: INCLUDE .vs. MODULE
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Date: 25 Oct 88 20:48:39 GMT
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In-reply-to: tsh@mace.cc.purdue.edu's message of 25 Oct 88 15:09:29 GMT


In article <917@mace.cc.purdue.edu> tsh@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Greg Kamer) writes:


	stuff removed...

   The point is that you don't want to do source code maintenence on
   the mainframe, thus the MODULE's would be on the front-end.
   Also, you need to remember that SOME operating systems (such as CDC VSOS,
   which is what we use on our Cyber 205) differentiate between local job
   files and permanent files. Thus, you must inlcude jcl to pre-attach
   and INCLUDE or MODULE files that you might have on the mainframe BEFORE
   you run the compiler.

   More Cyber stuff ...


I agree that MODULE is very useful. But the issue of distributed
source can be handled at the distributed OS level quite nicely. (* sun
plug follows *) NFS + automounter + yellow pages + NSE.  (all sun
products, many of which exist on other vendors platforms, thanks to
licesening agreements) (* end sun plug *)

Naturally this does not help those working with machines whose vendors
haven't climbed onto the bandwagon! :>>>

My points are:

1)	MODULE has other good features. It should be implemented.
2)	Source code control/network stuff can/should be done at the OS level.

btw: 

> "...macro-processor in f88"

This got lost very early in the comittee. To make a long story short,
the committee felt under pressure to keep the proposed standard fairly
short. So macro-processing we left out. I would have preferred it be
included; but it is too late for f88. Let's ordain f88, and work on
implementing it. Then in five years we can start discussing f9x, or f20xx.


Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus