Re: PL/I Visibility.

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>
> 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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