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7. I strongly disagree, but then ...

Reply to William Seger (Reply #6)

Wed Jun 12, 2019, 04:02 PM

Jun 2019

I am one of the world's experts on PL/I. Compiler writer, member of the Standards committee, etc.

I would agree with criticisms is some areas. For example, the orthogonality in the original design was overdone. There was no need for the COMPLEX attribute being applied additively to currency other than to be able to specify imaginary dollars.

Be curious what your perceived problems with language the might be. Most of the criticisms were addressed several decades ago and codified in the revised standard.

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