[TUHS] Book Recommendation

[Will Senn]

Since we're all recommending books, I'd like to recommend:

Richard Fitzpatrick's translation of J. L. Heiberg's Euclid's Elements 
of Geometry. It's fantastic, and without Euclid, we'd prolly not have 
unix...

Will

On 11/24/21 2:13 PM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> 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;