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IBM Had A PL/I, Its Syntax Worse Than JOSS
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IBM had a PL/I,
Its syntax worse than JOSS;
And everywhere this language went,
It was a total loss.
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IBM had a PL/I, Its syntax worse than JOSS; And everywhere this language went, It was a total loss.
IBM had a PL/I, Its syntax worse than JOSS: And everywhere this language went, It was a total loss.
-- The Great Quux June 1973...
It appears that PL/I (and its dialects) is, or will be, the most widely used higher level language for systems programming.
-- J. Samme...
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most of its revenue came from sales of BASIC, a horrible language so dependant on GOTOs that spaghetti looked more orderly than its code did....
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax
no greater liability than a command of the language. -- Marya Manne...
Quote #124 `Do not use procedures; they are expensive'.
-- -- from IBM's PL/I (F) documentation, circa 1966...
Mary had a little lamb The doctors were astounded.
And everywhere that Mary went Gynecologists surrounded....
Language: A system of organizing and defining syntax errors.