[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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