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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
Date: 5 Dec 1994 21:51:12 -0500
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In article <3c060k$cf7@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Mike, have you REALLY met engineers who walked away from PL/1 because of
>the array subscripting order "problem". If so their behavior is peculiar
>given the fact that PL/1 allows the specification of subscripting regimes
>in full generality using ISUB (swapping indices is a trivial application).
>

Yes.

But unless I mis-read the post from the IBM chap the other day,
ISUB does more than logically swap the indices, it actually
transposes the array. I don't think I kept that post, but I do 
think that's what he said.

Has PL/1 supported ISUB all along? I do not remember it from my
PL/1 days 20 or so years ago.

Mike Feldman