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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: status of PL/I as a viable language
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:44:20 +0000 (UTC)
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Preben Randhol wrote:
> feed came from the logger causing the logging program to crash. I
> changed the program so that in case it got this feed it should simply
> write -1000 (as this is not a value I would get from my electrode and
> thus I can remove it later from the log) and then I got the program to
> continue. I can see in my logs that in some experiments I get this

By continue I mean that I got it to continue from the right point in the
stream. If the program would be able to cope with the erranous feed and
write this to the log it would have continued in the wrong place and
written gibberish for the rest of the log and this would have been
useless.

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Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov