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Figure 9-9 Language specific run time services
Language Environment (LE) is the replacement product of older language-specific run time
libraries and is now a base element of the z/OS, OS/390, VM/ESA®, and VSE/ESA™
operating systems.
9.6.1 New run time LE services
Today, LE has become IBM's key language product for all new run time services as shown in
Figure 9-10. These services are available to the application developer from multiple high-level
languages including COBOL, PL/I, C, C++, and FORTRAN. Even Assembler programs can
use these run time services (as long as they ...