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<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
> "robin" <robin_v@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> news:9hhkf.10004$ea6.5952@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> >
> > You seem to be unaware that PL/I has evolved since
> > it was "first designed".
> >
> It would have to have evolved quite a lot to be anywhere
> close to the capabilities or reliability of a language such as Ada.

Then this may interest you.  It's part of the source to the
PL/I compiler (which is compiled).

MATRIX (
   GET (A);
   GET (B);
   C = A x B;
   PUT ('Matrix multiplication of A by B yields:');
   PRINT (C, 8);

   F = M random N;
   PRINT (F, 7);
   G = N random M;
   print (g, 8);
   H = F dot_prod G;
   put ('dot product=');
   print (h, 8);
);
END;

> Perhaps you can provide a reference to some resources that
> would help us enlighten ourselves.

IBM VA PL/I for Windows Language Reference.

> Richard Riehle