Originally posted by: bbalk
There are many good things about the new PLI for AIX 3.1 release, but the biggest is that
PL/I for AIX is now fully up-to-date: it had been stuck at its last release in 2004, but
it now has all the language features added to Enterprise PL/I (and PL/I for Windows) in the
years since then.
Recent blog entries point to documents with all the details of what's in the 3.1 release,
but in brief, PL/I for AIX, Enterprise PL/I, and PL/I for Windows
support the same compiler options
including all the RULES suboptions to enforce code quality
accept the same syntax (and generate the same messages for incorrect programs)
including the INONLY, INOUT, and OUTONLY attributes for parameters
support the same built-in functions
including all the powerful UTF string-handling functions
contain the same performance enhancements (when not tied to the platform)
including all the inline mapping of structures with multiple REFER