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John W. Kennedy wrote in message ...
>glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>> (I didn't look it up for PL/I or ADA, but most likely they do, too.
>> Java is the only language that I know doesn't allow it.)
>
>Apart from Java's requirement of 2's-complement, the only case I can
>recall is that Ada goes out of its way to /permit/ 2's-complement. PL/I
>certainly doesn't have any particular requirement.

PL/I was designed at a time when ones and twos complement machines
were in use.  There's no reason why PL/I won't run on either
architecture.