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From: "GerardS" <GerardS@PrairieTech.Net>
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Subject: Re: PL/I is a viable language
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:58:58 -0600
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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.