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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics (COBOL Popularity) References: <90Stc.15309$be.3117@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <40b86431$0$186$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> <40B888E0.5040707@noplace.com> <40B8C86A.3050302@noplace.com> <40BE6BFD.8030305@noplace.com> <40BF141F.8020001@noplace.com> <40C38E7C.64564F@notes.udayton.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:46:27 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1087217188 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:46:28 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:46:28 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1468 Date: 2004-06-14T08:46:27-04:00 List-Id: Frank J. Lhota wrote: > "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message > news:Nplyc.52642$8k4.1169496@news20.bellglobal.com... > >>PL/I had a number of whizbang features (for the time), >>but they didn't exactly pander to the real business needs >>(I don't recall if the full PL/I language supported the >>picture formatting or not). Certainly one of PL/I's >>downfalls, was the shear size of the language, for the >>time. > > They certainly did. PL/1 was designed to fill the needs of both the COBOL > and FORTRAN markets, so they incorporated the best features of both > languages. The PL/1 record declarations were clearly modeled after their > COBOL counterparts. I know that you are citing record declarations as an example, but I didn't see enough evidence, IIRC, that it was business oriented enough in other ways. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg