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| From | Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Java primitive variable objects |
| Date | 2015-11-09 19:16 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 11/9/2015 5:57 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:02:09 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> And PL/1 - I remember it fondly. But that was in the early 80's, long >> after I was dealing with RPG. >> > I've used it on two projects - initially on an IBM S/88. This was re- > badged Stratus fault tolerant box using their own near-UNIX OS and > (probably) PL/1 subset G. The second time was regular IBM PL/1 on an > AS/400. > > I thought PL/1 was OK, but didn't much like the way it used exception > handlers. They were fine for trapping errors, but I thought that also > using them for normal events like end-of-file just disrupted the program > flow by separating the error trap from the loop where the end-of-file > occurred. I thought then and still think that COBOL did that better with > its 'PERFORM ... UNTIL ..' construct, particularly now that it allows the > controlled statements to be embedded in the PERFORM sentence. > > Probably because exceptions weren't made for handling normal events, just like in C++ and Java. They were designed to handle abnormal events. However, they were a rather new concept, and misused more than they were correctly used. I agree, the COBOL PERFORM ... UNTIL .. construct was better. But then COBOL was better than most languages at the time for handling file input. -- ================== Remove the "x" from my email address Jerry Stuckle jstucklex@attglobal.net ==================
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