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I worked in PL/1 for 4 years. Saying it is just "F&%ing works" made me laugh hard! The compilation never failed because the compiler assumed what you really wanted. I got many bizarre programs.



That was typical of PL/C and the silly IBM timesharing language based on PL/1, not so much of PL/1 itself.


Must have had an odd code base then - I found it nice to work with.

And in my experience Primes pl1/g Compiler did properly assume what a sane developer would want - well there was that one time I had to recompile the entire Pl1 part of our MR system and push it out to all 17 systems :-)




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