From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics (COBOL Popularity)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:05:50 GMT
Date: 2004-06-11T21:05:50+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <O8pyc.15601$mz.14513@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Nplyc.52642$8k4.1169496@news20.bellglobal.com
"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> 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.
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2004-05-29 1:51 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-29 10:21 ` Per Dalgas Jakobsen
2004-05-29 12:58 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 13:35 ` Ed Falis
2004-05-29 17:29 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 17:40 ` Ed Falis
2004-05-29 18:44 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 18:58 ` Ed Falis
2004-05-30 7:55 ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-30 11:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-30 16:10 ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-31 11:56 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 17:48 ` Wes Groleau
2004-05-29 18:53 ` Marin David Condic
[not found] ` <n42jb05e8rk7bsrtf2ikesu9t0bsmbphji@4ax.com>
2004-05-31 12:04 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-06 10:35 ` I R T
2004-05-30 7:50 ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-31 12:25 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-02 16:45 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-02 17:48 ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-03 15:57 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-03 0:09 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-03 1:08 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-03 12:06 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-03 12:33 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-03 16:44 ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-03 17:52 ` tmoran
2004-06-04 1:13 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-04 11:27 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-04 18:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-06 21:37 ` Leon Winslow
2004-06-07 11:08 ` I R T
2004-06-08 2:22 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-08 9:07 ` I R T
2004-06-08 11:33 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-09 21:02 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-09 21:22 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-09 23:30 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-10 2:02 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-10 2:27 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-10 19:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
[not found] ` <28rfc01rhesdk2qt27krrr65nnk0n0kihc@4ax.com>
2004-06-12 3:01 ` non sequitur Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-11 16:51 ` 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics (COBOL Popularity) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-11 17:18 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-11 18:49 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-11 19:07 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-11 20:39 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-12 11:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-11 21:05 ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
2004-06-14 12:46 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-07 11:19 ` 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics Marin David Condic
2004-06-07 22:24 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-08 1:11 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-08 2:35 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-08 6:59 ` tmoran
2004-06-08 19:44 ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-09 1:32 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-09 6:23 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-09 7:09 ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-10 1:41 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-10 6:13 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-11 2:03 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-12 2:31 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-15 16:07 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-09 7:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-09 6:31 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-09 9:43 ` I R T
2004-06-09 15:28 ` Jerry Petrey
2004-05-29 15:58 ` Preben Randhol
2004-05-29 17:45 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 17:51 ` Ed Falis
2004-05-29 19:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-30 7:57 ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-30 18:35 ` Richard Riehle
2004-05-31 12:38 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-04 12:56 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-05 8:49 ` Pascal Obry
2004-06-06 10:27 ` I R T
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