Structured Programming Facility was how we named it back in 1978.

I was thrilled to think that IBM had a product for Structured Programming.
Having cut my teeth on the excellent Jackson Structured programming
techniques, alas it wasn't that at all but merely a code indenter to line
up block structured programs such as PL/I which was our sole language
allowed at IBM at the time for my particular project.

A few months later the erudite Tony Droar ran courses on JSP, we used it a
little and it was soon forgotten when the next fad came along. (JSP was not
a fad).

I still have my copy of "Principles of Program Design".



On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> In <[email protected]>, on
> 07/27/2014
>    at 07:53 AM, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> said:
>
> >On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 07:34:50 -0500, I wrote:
>
> >>I'm probably less than half the age of some (most ???) on this list,
>
> >Ok,ok, that was a bit of a stretch ...  :0)
>
> ObLustInMyHeart I didn't harvest your pun the first time around, but
> is there anybody left here that actually worked on Stretch.
>
> --
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