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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101deb,f96f757d5586710a X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dick@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Dr. Richard Botting) Subject: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception? Date: 1996/08/03 Message-ID: <4tvus1$a3h@news.csus.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171841676 references: <4t9vdg$jfb@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <31FE35BC.1A0D@sanders.lockheed.com> <4totv7$o9f@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> followup-to: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 organization: CS Dept., Calif. State Univ., San Bernardino newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 Date: 1996-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Martin @lone (pmartin@alsys.com) wrote: : Which PL/I compilers are available today on Sparc/Solaris, HP700/HPUX, : Windows/Intel and PowerPC/* ? I thought the language was dead since : the demise of IBM mainframes and the death of (the beloved) Multics. : I also though the PL/I experts have so many years of programming : experience that they are now.. retired. : PL/I had everything, except reserved words. The infamous "if if then then". As one who taught PL/I by IBM trainers, while working, when it was called NPL, and never used the language and got paid for it, I completely agree with Pascal's comments... and will add the following opinion: PL/I was not designed for real time but to be a weapon against Algol, COBOL, FORTRAN and other tools that let people port their sofware to non-IBM platforms. -- dick botting http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/signature.html Disclaimer: CSUSB may or may not agree with this message. Copyright(1996): Copy freely but say where it came from. I have nothing to sell, and I'm giving it away.