From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 11810 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2021 20:20:47 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 24 Nov 2021 20:20:47 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B3ECD9C7A3; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 06:20:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B566593D29; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 06:18:32 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="K/m2Rk+2"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7697693D29; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 06:18:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-ot1-f54.google.com (mail-ot1-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B115F93D1B for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2021 06:18:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-ot1-f54.google.com with SMTP id h16-20020a9d7990000000b0055c7ae44dd2so6066474otm.10 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:18:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject:content-language:to :references:from:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ornzfif5sOk9YHK9P40xFnsHln9Sq4Hk6eh0TtY2dHw=; b=K/m2Rk+2dYk8NZrknTLcS7i/dM7PlOjiTYJxbzrRnrduIAbkVvnJMSSjgNLWirCNHI G9aqukNqjOE7R9Kv17UuMA/UK8p+6iELshIGA7fIZBI4L6eWrRN3bNaWz1Duea6o6Aoq ewNVt0PsM2SvrciW3WuRjjY6UJRBFq7cTZtISrTvktZj2CtINsYyylA5V+qQG8v0NS/Y M2JXBuasDOqTnWURrKzd/mt2e/P9UVbZ+9zpNeI6PUKG/zZwquekcnCswBObdbpkx6Nc SLwVBViJeSp4T56Lu4QnIJIm4YQyMM/c0osIxRawsx1QQjPQKSNJPKDJ/pfofg7+yVvH csYQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:mime-version:user-agent:subject :content-language:to:references:from:in-reply-to :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ornzfif5sOk9YHK9P40xFnsHln9Sq4Hk6eh0TtY2dHw=; b=Wxeu6oFw8VulNDH+/s++EoFg2msMH6H4NpPqr3W2Q1XtSE5U83Gsmv/HpcXaeUjXXN +RONaycKB1CZF3pakbIGRCB6bTJdfiDFPrxJ6bqitOEp59pnO3C5UdQLmKNQ3tWbPuV3 YSMBF5OKJcD49Ut2nxwBRLUth/ANX4f6zfQr279x4VEGOnA6DSHtSo64IIjH757vRzM+ Vif9JTraJbeIBhfByMkkaAuCllDpnOElpW4qjNCOvhypeo8u8oNQihEjgOdKuQAOs4Ia delMYN8JuQe9zLtMfoo6P3/qLHAgtgglk8rk78j4jleRhdIqR58S3EUl3jfpQutpDqcW S9ow== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530l3M2sohND74eX+C1/A2TqaTjkj2qHAyiARBnP6yfJxzOVapRx oXXNu0rDaDm/Cu0gHUlzg5j/95qZoFI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzSrwEF2uo1UlbEQenbt4KddPiGTS9HVpHo86G/BRQjlSIOosfQ+gV5A5ghnjuHfBpT/Np3RQ== X-Received: by 2002:a9d:1b0:: with SMTP id e45mr15460012ote.23.1637785109740; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:18:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.5.0.2] ([185.247.70.70]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r5sm154098oov.48.2021.11.24.12.18.29 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:18:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:18:28 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.2 Content-Language: en-US To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <202111242013.1AOKDYNd007770@freefriends.org> From: Will Senn In-Reply-To: <202111242013.1AOKDYNd007770@freefriends.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Since we're all recommending books, I'd like to recommend: Richard Fitzpatrick's translation of J. L. Heiberg's Euclid's Elements of Geometry. It's fantastic, and without Euclid, we'd prolly not have unix... Will On 11/24/21 2:13 PM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > Richard Salz wrote: > >> I asked my pal Barry Shein, who many of you know, if he had his PL/1 syntax >> horror lying around, and he did. He said: "this was tested on the Iron >> Spring Software PL/1 compiler running on openSuSe Linux ( >> http://www.iron-spring.com/)" >> >> IBM still uses PL/1. Remember, the main definition of "legacy" is >> "revenue-producing." >> >> TRY:PROC OPTIONS(MAIN); >> DCL (IF,THEN,ELSE) FIXED BINARY (31); >> >> IF = 1; >> THEN = 2; >> ELSE = 3; >> >> IF IF = THEN THEN THEN = IF ; ELSE ELSE = THEN; >> >> END TRY;