On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 11:20, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:

> "You can write FORTRAN in any language."
>
> Too be fair, much of what I take for granted in PL/I control structures
> was not in the original version, and IBM rejected the original SHARE
> requirement for a CASE statement.
>

But the SELECT statement that they added (before my time) later beats the
crap out of CASE in C & Pascal.

Robert
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Some REXX code for use on z/OS
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