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Article #737Re: PL/I and Reserved Words
From: Norman Diamond
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1989 12:07
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1989 12:07
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In article <4666d281.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> perry@apollo.HP.COM (Jim Perry) writes: [about someone's opinion of PL/I] >I'll take exception with "doesn't run on any interesting machines"; I'll >grant you that there's no UNIX implementation that I'm aware of, and that >may have killed it. Sure, the lack of a Unix implementation helped kill it (and maybe we'll see the death of ANSI magnetic tape formats too). However, surely PL/I killed itself. Would you really specify precisions on your integers? If so, maintenance will kill you. This is one of the things Wirth got perfectly right. -- Norman Diamond, Sony Corp. (diamond%ws.sony.junet@uunet.uu.net seems to work) Should the preceding opinions be caught or | James Bond asked his killed, the sender will disavow all knowledge | ATT rep for a source of their activities or whereabouts. | licence to "kill".
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!kddlab!ccut!titcca!sragwa!wsgw!socslgw!diamond From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: PL/I and Reserved Words Keywords: PL/I keywords Message-ID: <10994@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> Date: 24 Oct 89 12:07:02 GMT References: <2958@usceast.UUCP> <4560@bd.sei.cmu.edu> <465396f5.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <6614@ficc.uu.net> <4666d281.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Reply-To: diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond) Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan Lines: 19