[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/6/2017 9:08 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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....

I have worked on CDC NOS.

Arne