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sadly, we have no plans to do this in the near future and think it would be fairer to state that openly than to leave this in a perpetual state of limbo
I have supported a cross-platform tool written in PL/I on z/OS, VM, AIX and Windows since 1988. The tool (ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/printers/tools/analyzer) is available on IBM and other sites. I have been unable to update the Windows version (the most popular) for several years due to lack of a Windows PL/I compiler.
Present IBM overall desktop policy would seem to suggest equal support of OS X. (Full Cocoa support is pretty much out of the question, but computational subroutines and command-line use would not be all that difficult if an i32/x64 code generator already existed.)
Now PL/I have no compiler for most used platform - Windows. Existing compiler for that platform will lead to populariry increasing of PL/I
From my point of view, to have a PL/I compiler for Windows would be more important than for Linux,.
PL/I for Windows should be available, as it used to be.
It should be available for download as a separate entity,
cost should be about $400 U.S.
All PL/I for Windows IBM compilers have very inconvenient error: when both A and B are complex, operator A=A*B; gives error in real part of result.
for the time beeing: ironspring pl/i :-)
We are considering the viability of this request.