Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: noitalmost Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: design of PL/I, was Is multi-level function return possible? Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:16:58 -0400 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 7 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-03-063@comp.compilers> References: <14-03-020@comp.compilers> <14-03-054@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1395881640 16154 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (27 Mar 2014 00:54:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: history Posted-Date: 26 Mar 2014 20:53:59 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1185 I would just like to express my appreciation for these forrays into all the old (pre-1980s) machines and their compilers. It really helps to put into context features and lack thereof of languages and compilers that grew out of that time period. There's so much that a grammar, the section in an architecture or survey of languages textbook, and maybe an old user's guide don't say.