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From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (robin)
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/09/17
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	ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

	>Yes, I do.  That's how _I_ know that the language has changed, and how
	>I know that essentially none of the PL/I code I ever had would work under
	>OS/2 PL/I.  (Hint:  ANSI PL/I and IBM PL/I use _different_ rules for
	>interpreting fixed point arithmetic, and I used PL/I on non-IBM machines.)

PL/I for OS/2 will compile according to ANSI rules
or according to IBM rules, according to a compiler
option that you  can specify.  So it's  very likely
your programs would still run under IBM's PL/I for OS/2.

	>Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.