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From: "Glen Herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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"robin" <robin_v@bigpond.mapson.com> wrote in message news:OqV5a.53545

(snip regarding the ability to find errors in programs)
>
> PL/I tells you where the needle actually is.
>

On the 360/91 it told you where the error was near.

-- glen