On Thursday, 1994-09-15  Jacob Warner wrote to Chris Freyer about
"Pl/I" as follows:

JW> I don't know. PL/I is an old (at least 20 years old) mainfram
JW> language. It reminds me more of C if you can imagine every C
JW> catalog function being included in the language itself. The subset
JW> most people used is Subset G and it contains functions that you
JW> wouldn't believe. However it is a very powerful language and runs
JW> very fast. Everything in it is a procedure, but that is also true of
JW> C. If you make certain programming errors, PL/I will try to correct
JW> them with usually astonishing results. I always liked it much better
JW> than C or Pascal. I have not done any real programming in REXX so
JW> I'm not qualified to make any comparison there.

Hi Jake,

Welcome to the Heretics and Apostates Club! 

I don't know if you have tried the IBM or MicroFocus PL/I compilers
for OS/2, but they make the older mainframe compilers seem very crude.
If you receive the IBM Dev Conn CD you will find a demo copy of the
[now discontinued] PL/I Workstation/2. The demo copy is nowhere near as
full-featured as the retail version [now called "PL/I for OS/2,
Personal Edition"] but it might whet your appetite for some "industrial
strength" programming under OS/2.

Regards

Dave

 * KWQ/2 1.2g * PL/I: Understatement is the purest form of eloquence.

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