Interesting that it is available for OS/2 and not Windows. If you are already supporting Linux and OS/2, it isn't much more work to support Windows too–and wil

Interesting that it is available for OS/2 and not Windows. If you are already supporting Linux and OS/2, it isn't much more work to support Windows too–and will likely attract many more users than OS/2 support will The FAQ [0] says: > Iron Spring PL/I is free for non-commercial and hobbyiest use. The price of the commercial version has not yet been determined, but will be approximately two orders of magnitude less than IBM's compiler for Windows. Academic, Government, and Volume licenses will be available. A CD will be available at additional cost. I'm sceptical the commercial version is ever going to happen now. This is a very small and shrinking market, 20 years ago selling it would have been a tough gig but you might have had some success, the same success today is going to be orders of magnitude harder. If you had a time machine to take this product back to the 1990s, it probably would have done much better, though even there it would have been a decisively niche product. > The compiler is currently closed-source. I wonder why people do this – I get why you want to keep your software closed source if you have realistic plans to commercially exploit it – but if you don't, why not just let people have the source code? I've heard before stories about solo closed source developers who suddenly and unexpectedly die, and they'd left the source code on an encrypted disk, and even if their family gives some technical friend permission to try to retrieve it, turns out to be impossible because nobody knows the password. Open source, not an issue. [0] http://www.iron-spring.com/faq.html http://www.iron-spring.com/faq.html