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Article #4110Re: PL/I compiler
From: Jim Stinson
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 12:48
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 12:48
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Digital Research's PL/I compiler was very screwed up. After buying the compiler
for $600 - $500, and sending in the registration form, they set a list of about
50 or more bugs with it. Things like A = A * B where A and B were floating
point numbers messed up the stack and you program would eventually dump.
X = 105331 where X is an integer, would assign 15331, that is, the comiler
would drop 0's from integer constants from time to time. There were others,
I don't remember them all, I just could not believe some one would sell a
compiler for so much knowing it did not work and wouldn't give refunds.
Jim Stinson stinson@tifsim.csc.ti.com, @tifsim.pac.sc.ti.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!ti-csl!tilde.csc.ti.com!ticipa!tifsim.pac.sc.ti.com!stinson From: stinson@tifsim.pac.sc.ti.com (Jim Stinson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,misc.wanted,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.os.cpm,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: PL/I compiler Message-ID: <1991Jun10.124814.12965@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com> Date: 10 Jun 91 12:48:14 GMT References: <1991Jun4.073924.2610@weyrich.UUCP> <60LR3ND@math.fu-berlin.de> <1991Jun6.144734.244@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: usenet@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com (USENET News System) Distribution: usa Organization: Process Automation Ctr., Texas Instruments, Dallas Lines: 11