Excerpted from message dated 11-30-95, David Noon to Murray Lesser:

DN>Incidentally, the next upgrade release of PL/I is to be called Visual
  >Age PL/I. I just hope they don't replace the current visual generator
  >with that bloatware Smalltalk program that comes with Visual Age
  >C/C++.

Hi Dave--

    If they do, I'll forget about upgrading.  Even if the new version
includes the ability to compile stand-alone programs (promised sometime
back by a couple of messages from teampli support).

    After exchanging a few messages with the IBM C++ BBS (Lexington), I
decided Visual Age C++ was too rich for my blood, especially since I
have never used the C++ part of CSet++ v 2.01.  So I am still writing my
REXX external-function DLLs in C with the old compiler.  Anyway, I write
mostly utilities for my own amazement, and prefer character-mode
utilities to mousing around!

    The tag line shown on this message was stolen from the text of one
of your past replies, not from a tag line of yours.

    Regards,

          --Murray

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