On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 19:35:05 +0000 ????, Robert Prins  wrote:
>>    ...
>> I just updated ISRPXASM to add about 70 new COBOL and 140 new PL/I keywords.
>> You can grab FILE967 at www.cbttape.org.  Lots of other goodies in there.
>
>You missed out on the most mysterious PL/I keyword, "ELDERON" (no kidding...)
>
>DO..E..EBCDIC..EDIT..ELDERON..ELSE..END..ENDFILE
>CL16..FASTCALL16..PASCAL16..DIRECTED..NODIRECTED
>..NONULLDATE..TRUNCFLOAT..NOTRUNCFLOAT..BRACKETS
>
GIYF.  It appears to be an eponym.

>And what the flippin' 'ell are FASTCALL16 and PASCAL16?
>
In some desktop implementations of Pascal, INTEGER is equivalent
to SIGNED BINARY 15.

FWIW, in some implementations Pascal pushes function arguments
left-to-right; C right-to-left.

-- gil

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