[TUHS] Book Recommendation

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Richard Salz <rich.salz at gmail.com> 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;