From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Public access multics
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 23:06:19 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1809022258340.28912@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp9w=-EVT5jJheEQfgqyKvirkt1pEPo6YNhE1ThC521SRw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, John P. Linderman wrote:
> PL/I was a language designed by a committee, and it showed. [...]
I have never seen a full-blown PL/I compiler (only subsets), and I recall
being told that there never will be one because it is simply impossible,
given the spec.
Naturally I am happy to be proven wrong on this.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-02 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-01 20:31 Will Senn
[not found] ` <CAC20D2N-Q4VY8TLZagS6J2-US1G3emXVcOdX1BQZ44HYukD6ug@mail.gmail.com>
2018-09-01 20:50 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Clem Cole
2018-09-01 21:27 ` [TUHS] " jcs
2018-09-01 23:24 ` John P. Linderman
2018-09-02 13:06 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-09-02 16:23 ` Charles Anthony
2018-09-02 18:18 ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-02 19:09 ` Paul Winalski
2018-09-02 0:57 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-02 2:06 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-02 2:32 ` Charles Anthony
2018-09-02 2:52 ` Larry McVoy
2018-09-01 23:25 [TUHS] Fwd: " Noel Chiappa
2018-09-02 4:05 ` Will Senn
2018-09-02 4:25 ` [TUHS] " Jeffrey H. Johnson
2018-09-02 22:30 ` Will Senn
2018-09-01 23:33 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-01 23:44 ` jcs
[not found] <5B48F6A3-374A-4579-AE8F-35BD328D07F9@reagan.com>
2018-09-02 3:17 ` Jeffrey H. Johnson
2018-09-02 21:47 Doug McIlroy
2018-09-03 6:18 ` arnold
2018-09-03 13:29 Doug McIlroy
2018-09-03 23:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-09-04 2:47 ` Jeffrey H. Johnson
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