Ahouxt.172
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Tue Feb 16 12:17:43 1982
Re: Tools and the Novice Programmer
The Cornell PL/C is a fairly good teaching language, if you have an IBM
system.  It's a dialect of PL/I, with excellent diagnostics -- significantly
better than PL/I Checkout.  It does things like correcting syntax errors
(with an appropriate level of error messages -- and it often corrects
them right! ).  As of five years ago, Cornell was mostly batch oriented,
although they were starting to convert to CMS.  I don't know if the language
and compiler options have been upgraded to reflect this.  Another nice
feature of the language is GOOD free-format IO, as well as FORTRAN-like
formatted IO.