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From Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
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Subject Re: Java primitive variable objects
Date Mon, 9 Nov 2015 19:16:38 -0500
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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.

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