Re: your mail

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Geez, the only thing I can remember missing from it was the event stuff from
EDX on the S/1, but I think that stuff was added to the language for the
S/1.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

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-----Original Message-----
From: Don <dr2@cssas400.com>
To: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
Cc: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: your mail


>
>
>On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. wrote:
>
>> I must disagree with the "poor" implementation of PL/I on the 38 and 400.
I
>> had RPG and COBOL both choking on a particular math problem (8 hours and
>> only 25% done) while the PL/I compiler had the job COMPLETED in less than
2
>> hours!
>>
>
>
>Bruce,
>
>the reason I said poor was because it wasn't the full PL/I implementation
>that we had on the mainframes.  There was missing functionality in the
>S/38 implementation...don't ask me what now as I've not done that in a
>while...
>
>But, yeah, other than that I liked it...
>
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