Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter 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: <6659@ficc.uu.net> Date: 24 Oct 89 16:19:01 GMT References: <2958@usceast.UUCP> <4560@bd.sei.cmu.edu> <465396f5.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <6614@ficc.uu.net> <4666d281.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article <4666d281.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> perry@apollo.HP.COM (Jim Perry) writes: > Substitute any sufficiently common programming language you choose, e.g. > BASIC, PASCAL, or FORTRAN, only C (and APL) of common programming languages > lends itself by design and convention to intentionally cryptic and > maximally terse coding. DO 10 I = 1.10 -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "That particular mistake will not be repeated. There are plenty of 'U` mistakes left that have not yet been used." -- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)