[TUHS] Book Recommendation

[Richard Salz]

Yeah PROCEDURE is the official word, but if you're gonna low DCL heresy,
might as well throw in PROC.

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 3:28 PM Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also isn't it PROCEDURE? I don't remember PROC.
>
> -rob
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 7:15 AM Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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;
> > >
>
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