Re: Buffer overflow Article - CACM

["robin" <robin_v@bigpond.com>]

adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote in message ...
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>"robin" <robin_v@bigpond.com> wrote in message
>news:6ktjf.8048$ea6.3571@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
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>> What you say is not true; PL/I is perfectly capable, reliable,
>> and robust for all kinds of projects, including real-time projects,
>> just as Ada is.
>> As well, PL/I interfaces to other languages.
>>
>Sorry Robin but PL/I is simply not up to the level of reliability
>and capability as you might think it is.

Indeed it is both capable and reliable, and then some.

>It was a nice attempt when it was first designed, but it has been
>surpassed by new languages.

You seem to be unaware that PL/I has evolved since
it was "first designed".

>  The exception handling model is
>inadequate,

Exception handling is excellent, as is the model.

>  simple things such as getting out of a loop require
>dangerous statements,

You're talking rot.

>  and lots of other things that simply fall
>short of what one would expect of a more robust language
>design.

You really don't know what you are talking about.

>Richard Riehle