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Don wrote: >Hey, > >you folks all HAD free format but NOBODY would use it...not that the >compiler on the S/38 was kinda cost prohibitive ($10k back in '83!) and >that the standards committee has disbanded (except it kinda seems to be >going great guns in the PC arena for some damn reason).... > >Yeah, I'm talking about PL/I... > > >(Now I'm running to hide...:) > >Don in DC PL/I (or rather a teaching subset of PL/I) was my first programming language, and I always thought it was too unfairly maligned. Here's one of my favorite stories from school: In my 3rd year programming languages class, the prof discussed a number of popular programming languages under a number of different categories. During the week on PL/I, he wrote the title "Significant Advances" on the blackboard, left the board blank, and then quietly went on to the next topic! Cheers! Hans Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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