[TUHS] Book Recommendation
Larry McVoy
lm at mcvoy.com
Thu Nov 25 01:45:09 AEST 2021
Say hi to Barry for me, I knew him back in the UUCP days, he was always
pleasant.
That bit of PL/1 is nuts but funny.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 10:18:56AM -0500, Richard Salz wrote:
> I asked my pal Barry Shein, who many of you know, if he had his PL/1 syntax
> horror lying around, and he did. He said: "this was tested on the Iron
> Spring Software PL/1 compiler running on openSuSe Linux (
> http://www.iron-spring.com/)"
>
> IBM still uses PL/1. Remember, the main definition of "legacy" is
> "revenue-producing."
>
> TRY:PROC OPTIONS(MAIN);
> DCL (IF,THEN,ELSE) FIXED BINARY (31);
>
> IF = 1;
> THEN = 2;
> ELSE = 3;
>
> IF IF = THEN THEN THEN = IF ; ELSE ELSE = THEN;
>
> END TRY;
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