[TUHS] Book Recommendation

[arnold at skeeve.com]

What I meant to write here, before my ssh connection dropped, was
that FORTRAN also did not reserve keywords.

Arnold

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;