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- From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
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- Subject: Re: Is PL/S a dead language?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.194125.26515@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:41:25 GMT
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- In article <IBM-MAIN%92123110102334@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU> PERSHNG@YKTVMH.BITNET (John A. Pershing Jr.) writes:
- >I had been under the mistaken impression that, due to OCO, no sources
- >written in recent dialects of PL/X (read: in recent years) were
- >available to customers. I am glad to hear otherwise!
- >
- >There used to be a manual which was essentially a "reader's guide to
- >PL/S", but I don't believe that it has been updated since PL/S-2 or -3,
- >and I don't know if it was any good (I've never seen this manual).
-
- I have a copy in front of me right now. Are you allowed to tell us some
- of the differences between PL/S 2 and modern PL/X, or is even that
- a secret? I don't _know_ that the PL/S I've seen is 'recent' PL/S; how
- can I tell?
-