[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <ojmeth$39c$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>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.

If you're thinking 60s and 70s, you should look at JCL, and the 
horrible horrible CCL that CDC NOS used... and even worse that
Burroughs Job Language....
--scott

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