[TUHS] Book Recommendation

[Rob Pike]

I thought it was

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 IF = THEN = ELSE;

END TRY;

But yeah.

Best to Barry.

-rob

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 2:23 AM 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;
>