I used a B6700 at University and I became a fan of WFL, Algol, DCAlgol and Espol (student). In fact I wrote a parser for a Linear Programming language using Algol. I actually designed the language using BNF and parsed the statements that way. The only alternatives I have found to Algol (Burroughs style) are PL1 and maybe Pascal. But then I have never programmed in C or C++
Can't beat WFL - JCL is so strict syntax wise. On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:37 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > Burroughs had several product lines; only the B6500 line survives at > Unisys. The B2500 line had the sign to the left. The B6500 had the sign > bit to the left for packed and to the right for signed numeric character > data. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf > of Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) <thomas.sa...@fiserv.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 1:42 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Burroughs WFM vs. z/OS JCl and VSE JCL wasRe: REXX as JCL > replacement > > Many years ago when Converting a DDA system from Burroughs to IBM, > Burroughs packed fields had the annoying habit of putting the sign at the > beginning of the field....instead of the end of the field like IBM. > Made for pages and pages of "Move with Offsets" in the Assembler > programs....Cobol didn’t care for it at all. > > Does Burroughs still do that ?? > > Thanks, > > Tom Savor > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
