From: "GerardS" <GerardS@PrairieTech.Net>
Subject: Re: PL/I is a viable language
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:58:58 -0600
Date: 2003-02-23T11:58:58-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v5i2u5dt5cp9c0@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
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| 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).
_______________________________________________Gerard S.
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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 [this message]
2003-02-24 3:08 ` John W. Kennedy
2003-02-26 1:19 ` Richard Shetron
2003-02-26 16:36 ` Glen Herrmannsfeldt
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