Re: [EXTERNAL] RE: the cycle that never ends -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] RE: the cycle that never ends
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:48:56 -0700
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On 6/13/18, 10:35 AM, Jack Woehr wrote:

Yeah, I was going to say ... you have it already ... it's called "ILE C" :)

Except that C is not what I would call a true HLL. At least, not in the sense of BASIC, FORTRAN, RPG, COBOL, PL/I, Pascal, or Java (even though Java syntax is based on C syntax). More a mid-level language: higher level than assembler, lower than a true HLL, and more than enough rope to hang yourself.

I still wish PL/I had taken off. Now there's a language where you can almost say, "You know what I want; just do it." If it had taken off, then we'd probably have Object PL/I (it exists, but only just barely) instead of C++, Objective C, and Java.

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JHHL

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