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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ac12f5a60b1bfe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,87f6968ed41c9df1 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public From: ag129@ucs.cam.ac.uk (A. Grant) Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?) Date: 1996/08/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174529285 references: <4ta0iu$kks@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <4u538f$9q6@hacgate2.hac.com> <4u6723$kp2@piglet.cc.uic.edu> <4uibvh$References: <4ta0iu$kks@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <4u538f$9q6@hacgate2.hac.com> <4u6723$kp2@piglet.cc.uic.edu> <4uibvh$Organization: University of Cambridge organization: University of Cambridge, England newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 Date: 1996-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4uvqos$iv4@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> dwnoon@ibm.net writes: >PL/I has had type definitions for a few years now. You no longer need >to kludge using LIKE. It also has had enumerations, etc., for a few years >too. These first appeared under OS/2, but the Windows NT compiler has >them too, as does the latest mainframe compiler. >The latest release of PL/I has OO constructs. However, IBM has not >released the documentation on them, so nobody outside of Santa Teresa >labs has much experience with it. Unless these extensions are going to make it into ANSI PL/I, they are really not relevant to a discussion of embedded systems, are they?