From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net>
Subject: Re: PL/I is a viable language
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 03:08:06 GMT
Date: 2003-02-24T03:08:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <q0g6a.538999$HG.95100948@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v5i2u5dt5cp9c0@corp.supernews.com>
GerardS wrote:
> | Glen Herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> || robin wrote:
> | (snip regarding the ability to find errors in programs)
> |> PL/I tells you where the needle actually is.
>
> | On the 360/91 it told you where the error was near.
>
> PL/I had an option (for the 360/91) to identify the
> correct PL/I statement. One method was to put an extra
> semicolon at the end of each statement (or those
> statements that were likely to cause an error).
At the cost of slowing the 91 down to a 75. It meant issuing the
BCR 15,0
(flush pipeline) instruction.
By the way, all this also applied to the 360/95, 360/195, and 370/195.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly;
the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
-- G. K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday"
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-23 1:26 PL/I is a viable language robin
2003-02-23 2:27 ` Glen Herrmannsfeldt
2003-02-23 17:58 ` GerardS
2003-02-24 3:08 ` John W. Kennedy [this message]
2003-02-26 1:19 ` Richard Shetron
2003-02-26 16:36 ` Glen Herrmannsfeldt
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