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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101deb,6be11e765df1680d X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,6be11e765df1680d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-23 19:08:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!gestalt.direcpc.com!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news.webusenet.com!news01.optonline.net!news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John W. Kennedy" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: PL/I is a viable language References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 03:08:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.82.223.172 X-Trace: news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net 1046056086 67.82.223.172 (Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:08:06 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:08:06 EST Organization: Optimum Online Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.pl1:4443 comp.lang.ada:34494 Date: 2003-02-24T03:08:06+00:00 List-Id: 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"