On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:44:31 -0500, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was taught that PL/1 is the "UN-COBOL" in 1971, when I took it and >ended up teaching it! Everybody was talking about the I/O of COBOL and >the computational power of FORTRAN. "If Fortran has been called an infantile disorder, PL/I must be classified as a fatal disease. " -Edsger Dijkstra in Introduction to the Art of Computer Programming Which inspired a 1972 paper by Rick Holt called Teaching the Fatal Disease. Tony H. (PL/I fan for the most part, notwithstanding the 25 + 1/3 problem) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
