Excerpted from message dated 08-13-96, Bill Brown to David Noon:

BB>How's it differ from the 360/370 version? :-)  I won't be in the
  >market for the OS/2 version in the near future, maybe eventually.
  >Would I enjoy it other than just a trip down memory lane?

Hi Bill--

    I'll let David speak to the memory-lane stuff, as I stopped
programming for a living in late 1954 and took it up again as an
avocation in late 1979.  So I missed the glory years of big-iron PL/I.

    I was led down the garden path to PL/I for OS/2 somewhat over a year
ago, after following a furious argument David was having with a bunch of
C++ bigots in the IBM PCC BBS OS/2 Programming conference.  I am now
sorry I didn't learn it earlier.  (There was a CP/M version of a subset
of PL/I available when I bought my first microcomputer, but I wasn't
smart enough at the time.)  I wouldn't write a new utility today in any
other language (except for PL/I's descendent, REXX, under the proper
circumstances).  As David once told me, I should have written my REXX
external function DLLs in PL/I, instead of in C.

    I don't understand how any former user of PL/I could be happy with
the restrictions of C or the complications of C++.  You ought to be
ashamed of yourself for even asking such a question !

    Regards,

          --Murray

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