On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 06:01:14 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >Although I reference APL in a previous message, my favorite language back >in college was PL/I. I haven't seen either language since. My favorite > APL is the Perl of mainframes. Write-only languages.
>language under MS-DOS was Turbo Pascal. > I once shared with a co-worker a Mac Pascal program I wrote to translate RTF to (Waterloo?) Script. I relied on the Pascal file buffer -- sort of a 1-character peekahead. Standard Pascal, but Turbo didn't implement it. We were both dismayed. Ever notice how anyone who violates a standard is apt to claim, "My way is better!" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
