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Don

At 10:08 AM 11/2/97 -0500, you wrote:

>Frankly, I'm one of the probably few folks left that thinks PL/I was and
>should still be (if the damn standards folks hadn't abandoned it) one of
>the best languages out there.

-snip-

JMHO

I get extremely frustrated when programming examples are only written in PL/I. This can often happen in redbooks. I wasn't around when PL/I had a chance, and the fact is that we don't have the product on any of our machines—or, like REXX, is it on all 400's without IBM telling us?

Vernon Hamberg


You think that's fun? There's an example in the OfficeVision manual that's written in COBOL. There's a bit of text that says something like, "Yeah, we know COBOL can't handle hex values, so we wrapped a CL around the program to create the values and pass them in. And we did it in COBOL just to be able to say we did it."

RPG would have been a lot easier to follow.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com

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