Excerpted from message dated 08-28-94, Eric Schilke to Louis Rizzuto:
(original subject: "Pascal and ???")

ES>
  >One option you might consider is PL/I.  Although I know little about
  >it, I understand that it is very Pascal-like, but more elegant.  I
  >received a demo kit from IBM (which runs on OS/2), and though I
  >haven't had much time to investigate it, it looks good so far.  I
  >think this will be my next personal education project.
  > 

Eric--

    I have the demo PL/I kit from DevCon and the "OS2 Online Book
Collection" CD-ROM, which has some PL/I manuals.  I thought it might be
interesting to learn enough PL/I to write REXX "extended function" DLLs
in PL/I instead of in C.  However, learning a language from online
manuals is more than I can face (they are almost as useless as reference
materials, but [perhaps] better than no documentation at all).

    Have you run across a suitable tutorial text on "elementary PL/I?" I
suppose it is too much to ask for something having the tone of Kernighan
and Ritchie's textbook on using C.

    Thanks for any info you might have.

               --Murray

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