Hello Murray!

13 Jan 99 13:05, Murray Lesser wrote to Francois Thunus:

 ML>     Seriously, I was trying to show Eddy what a complete (albeit
 ML> trivial) PL/I program looked like.  If you name the source file
 ML> containing my demo program TOUPPER.PLI, compile and link it, and then
 ML> key in the command line: "toupper This is a test" (no
quotes), you will
 ML> get back: "THIS IS A TEST" (without quotes) displayed on
your screen.

When I wrote the upcase() I didn't really read the example, granted. And
when I read it, I thought it was an UpStr() procedure. I didn't realize it
was a complete program in itself.

 ML>     Somehow, I have the feeling that your example won't even compile,
 ML> let alone run :-(.

of course not. nor the second posted, for the reason explained earlier.
out of curiosity, how big would be the executable ? I'll write the
equivalent in Pascal and compile under Borland, Borland/2, speed pascal and
VP just to have an idea. I know it's not always the size that matters, but
I'm curious. I've seen the size vary so much with C compilers that I'm
curious to make the same experiment with pascal compilers.


                             -= Francois =-
                      Francois(at)telematique(dot)org
                       http://www.telematique.org/ft

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