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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
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- Subject: Re: Is PL/S a dead language?
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:47:27 GMT
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- In article <IBM-MAIN%92123008030753@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU> "John A. Pershing Jr." <PERSHNG@YKTVMH.BITNET> writes:
- >infer "facts" about the language based on a few snippets of (perhaps
- >badly-written) code that you may have seen sometime in the past.
-
- Thank you. Next time I spend an entire day poring through MVS microfiche to
- locate a bug, I will be consoled by the thought that MVS is just a few snippets
- of (perhaps badly-written) code. :-)
-
- p.s. aren't you forgetting "Guide to PL/S II", GC28-6794? It may be sketchy
- (50 pages) and it may not have been published since 1974, but it is good
- enough that you can't take the attitude that PL/S critics have just failed
- to understand the language.
-