Re: PL/1 a dead language?

[ted@telesoft.UUCP (Ted J. Nothorn @spot)]

Concerning the recent item from Dave Stein: 


>With the TeleGen compiler, the program prints "we made it" then exits.
>This does not seem correct to me.  When I compile this with the Verdix
>Ada compiler on our Vax, the program prints "==> DEADLOCK! <== No tasks
>to run, no delays waiting."  If I change the "or" marked with "XXX" to
>an "else," the programs works "as expected" for both compilers, i.e.
>it prints "can't accept yet" 9 times, then prints "we made it" and exits.

>Anyone have any ideas?  Please email unless you feel it would be of
>interest to the group as a whole.  Many thanks in advance!


Thanks to Mr Deller for a **MOST** appropriate response.

Dave Stein is indeed running under an outdated environment. He is
using version 1.0 of the TeleGen2 Sun Ada compiler, an early
beta release which has been replaced by the current release, version 
1.2 TeleGen2 Sun Ada compiler.

The particular problem that Dave was referring to here is a known bug
with the early beta release version of the compiler. This bug has been
fixed in the current released version of TeleGen2 Sun Ada 1.2.
The particular test that was posted has been run on version 1.2 and
PRODUCES CORRECT RESULTS.

I would like to reiterate Mr Deller's encouragement to contact the
vendor with specific problems you are having with their product. This
is the quickest and most effective means of getting **ACCURATE**
information about the product while avoiding the waste of time and
effort of many on the net.

Ted Nothorn
TeleSoft Customer Support
(619) 457-2700