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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: PL/I and Reserved Words
Keywords: PL/I keywords
Message-ID: <6614@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 20 Oct 89 17:43:24 GMT
References: <2958@usceast.UUCP> <4560@bd.sei.cmu.edu> <465396f5.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <465396f5.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> perry@apollo.HP.COM (Jim Perry) writes:
> point out that nobody's ever held an "obfuscated PL/I contest" or written 
> a "PL/I puzzle book".  

If there were as many PL/I programmers as C programmers, then this might
change. But PL/I doesn't run on any interesting machines, and hasn't for
many years.
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