[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/6/2017 1:06 PM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <ojk0d7$7nb$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>
>> I would have said 60's and 70's.
> 
>     I never saw anything as good as DCL in the 60s.  DCL started to show
>     up in the late 70s, but it changed a lot by the early 80s.  As poor
>     as it is for programming, it used to be worse.

I know when DCL came around.

But when looking at some of the language characteristics (two
data types, if but not switch/case, no loops only goto, fixed format),
then I think more 1960-1980 than 1980-2000.

Arne