IBM Z Open Editor is an extension for Visual Studio Code that provides language support for the IBM® Enterprise COBOL, PL/I, HLASM, REXX, and (all new!) JCL languages. Go here for the full ...

One might argue language creation might be accelerating today, but it’s not a new problem. In my BLOG@CACM post “Why Are There So Many Programming Languages?”, I described how variants of programming ...

Abstract: In automated compiler testing, the focus typically lies in uncovering bugs caused by optimisations performed by the compiler. However, there is a class of compilers where little to no ...

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Abstract: This paper reports on a project to migrate PL/I programs running on an IBM mainframe under Z-OS to Java. The key point is that the transformation of the Code to Java was fully automated ...