25 Nov
2021
25 Nov
'21
2:18 a.m.
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(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Richard Salz <rich.salz(a)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;