Murray Lesser wrote in a message to Jerry Mcbride:

 ML> * Copied (from: TEAMOS2) by Jerry McBride using timEd/2
 ML> 1.01+. 

 ML> Excerpted from message dated 08-24-95, Jerry Mcbride to
 ML> Murray Lesser: 

JM>You caught my attention with your description of PL/I. Thank you.

 ML> Jerry--

Hi Murray,

 ML> Send an Email request to teampli{at}vnet.ibm.com and Christie 
 ML> Nieusma will send you literature...

I'd love to, but I haven't the spare change to plug into the WWW. Sorry.
You happen to have a land line number for her office?

 ML> I have never written a program requiring serial I/O...

Bummer. Not even a "Hello world" type dumb terminal? :')

 ML> You can open any of the standard I/O devices as files...

Well, that should cover serial devices ok, then...

 ML> ...and have full access to the OS/2 API...

This is nice. Thanks for the info.

 ML> I assume that Visual PL/I will compile only PM apps (I've never 
 ML> used it).  

You are my kind of person. The GUI is nice, but not my cuppatea...

 ML> I compile only text mode apps...

See above...  And this is where I'll be if I pick up a copy of the PL/I
compiler. Would you happen to knowif it's available on CDrom?

 ML> WorkFrame/2 is included in the compiler package, but I've never 
 ML> used that, either. 

I doubt that I'll be using it either. At least for the short term.
Curiosity does get the best of me though, form time to time. 

 ML> PL/I is a BIG language, and I'm still learning by writing and 
 ML> compiling utilities for my own use.  One disadvantage to 
 ML> compiling programs for distribution is that the EXEs are not
 ML> stand-alone files, they require two or three of the run-time
 ML> DLLs.  The three DLLs can be distributed royalty-free, but
 ML> they take up about 1.33 MB of file space (a little over 0.5
 ML> MB infoZipped).

The runtime's of os/2 languages always seem to be quite large. CARealizer
had one a bit over 700K.

 ML> Here is a little test program I wrote...

Thanks for the sample, Murry. It really does remind me of rexx. The thing I
like most about it is it was easily readable (if that's possible) and
didn't cause me an upset stomach like C does... :')

 ML> If you want more information, ask in OS2PROG.

About all I can think of asking for is a voice number for Christie.
However, I think I can track her down at IBM.

Jerry McBride

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