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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ada] made me hate programming
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Kulin Remailer expounded in news:6KDPK04Y40360.2153472222@reece.net.au:

>> I remember this when I was young. For some reason, students 
>> get real hung up on compile time errors.  It's like they are
>> horses bouncing around inside the gate, waiting for the door
>> to open. 
> 
> That was the questionable thinking behind a hilarious variant of PL/I
> called PL/C, Cornell University's PL/I compiler. Students just want
> their programs to compile and run, don't bother them with details like
> whether it's correct or not. Not a good assumption but...it was enough
> for somebody or some group of people to put out a pretty interesting
> compiler and get it out there in academia, circa late 70s early 80s
> timeframe. 
> 
> The purpose of PL/C was to take almost any input and hammer it until
> it looked like a PL/I program, compile it, and generate an executable
> from it. It certainly may not do what you intended, but by george, the
> damn thing will almost always start running. What happens
> next...nobody knows. 

Wow- that's quite the response to the issue!

Warren