From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f891f,84341d9bfd06c34b X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,7fc5f2ed2567dae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7fc5f2ed2567dae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-04 07:00:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 Subject: Re: Shell Central Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 02:21:10 -0400 Organization: Atid/2 Message-ID: <3d75a657$4$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> References: <3d72b4c2$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Cise: tanbanso@iinet.net.au X-CompuServe-Customer: Yes X-Coriate: admin@interspeed.co.nz X-Ecrate: tanandtanlawyers.com X-Punge: Micro$oft X-Sanguinate: themvsguy@email.com X-Terminate: SPA(GIS) X-Tinguish: Mark Griffith X-Treme: C&C,DWS X-Newsreader: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.31a/31 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.misc:3710 comp.lang.ada:28732 comp.lang.pl1:3011 Date: 2002-09-04T02:21:10-04:00 List-Id: In , on 09/03/2002 at 10:07 PM, jbrock@panix.com (John Brock) said: >Can you give us some examples? The ones that seem to cause the most confusion are abutment, CALL, SIGNAL and uninitialized variables. >What mistakes could have been >corrected, and how might REXX have been improved by being less >different from PL/1 than it is. IMHO it would have been cleaner to carry over the control structures of PL/I intact. Where I may trigger a flame war is that I like abutment and the ability to use uninitialized variables as though they were constants of the (upper case) same value as the name. I consider them to be reasonable differences, despite the confusion. Others consider them to be bad form. "NOVALUE" suggests that I may be in the minority. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2, Team OS/2, Team PL/I Any unsolicited commercial junk E-mail will be subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. I mangled my E-mail address to foil automated spammers; reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org