On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 09:56, Henry Schaffer wrote: > P.S. I didn't care for PL/I because of its complexity and awkwardness,
After a year or two of Fortran IV and COBOL at university, PL/I came as a breath of fresh air. Complex? Certainly, but there weren't many problems you couldn't tackle with it. Based variables, area and offset support, stream and record oriented I/O, label arrays (good for state machines), recursion, multitasking, reentrancy, event handling, other goodies. UNSPEC could be used as a target of assignment -- a sometimes reprehensible practice, but one that I still prefer over explicit casts in more modern languages. Complexity by itself doesn't kill a language's usefulness. (cf. Perl) -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
