Re: PL/I Visibility.

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don

At 10:08 AM 11/2/97 -0500, you wrote:

>Frankly, I'm one of the probably few folks left that thinks PL/I was and
>should still be (if the damn standards folks hadn't abandoned it) one of
>the best languages out there.  

-snip-

JMHO

I get extremely frustrated when programming examples are only written in PL/I. This can often happen in redbooks. I wasn't around when PL/I had a chance, and the fact is that we don't have the product on any of our machines—or, like REXX, is it on all 400's without IBM telling us?

Cheers


Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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