Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!dftsrv!hq!cliff
From: cliff@hq.af.mil (Cliff.J.Bamford)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: PL/I and Reserved Words
Keywords: PL/I keywords
Message-ID: <618@hq.af.mil>
Date: 25 Oct 89 08:07:53 GMT
References: <2958@usceast.UUCP> <4560@bd.sei.cmu.edu> <465396f5.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <6614@ficc.uu.net> <4666d281.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <6659@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: cliff@hq.af.mil (Cliff.J.Bamford)
Organization: Air Force HQ, The Pentagon
Lines: 19

No PL/I equivalent to Obfuscated C? Humph. We used to have Palindromic PL/I
contests:

	;
	x->y=w<-o->w=y<-x
	;

The rule was that the palindrome hadda pass unscathed under
the Pessimising Compiler. Then there were things like:

	do do = go to label by name;

and...

%dcl a char(*) init (''''''''''''''''''''''); /* that's 22 quotes */
dcl b char(*);
put string(b) data(a);
/* what's the value of b? */

You whippersnappers think C can be obfusc? PL/I INVENTED the concept.