User contributions for RogerofRomsey

4 February 2011

• 09:3309:33, 4 February 2011 diff hist +24 PL/I →Significant features omitted from the Standard: Give the correct location for the team that built the preprocessor. Personal Communication.

21 September 2010

• 20:3520:35, 21 September 2010 diff hist +68 User talk:RogerofRomsey →PL/I Question: replied to question ~~~~
• 20:2920:29, 21 September 2010 diff hist +42 Preprocessor Incude PL/I as an example of language with a preprocessor. The facilities are presented in the PL/I wiki. ~~~~
• 20:2020:20, 21 September 2010 diff hist −1 PL/I →Goals and principles: Better adjective

30 May 2010

• 19:2119:21, 30 May 2010 diff hist +30 PL/I →Teaching subset compilers
• 19:1919:19, 30 May 2010 diff hist +67 PL/I →Teaching subset compilers: Add ref to the University of Waterloo critique. ~~~~

3 May 2010

• 18:1418:14, 3 May 2010 diff hist −2 PL/I →Storage type sharing: Fix parentheses. ~~~~

27 April 2010

• 17:2617:26, 27 April 2010 diff hist +98 PL/I →Implementation Issues: Add reference to source for estimate on compiler size and replace "known". - see discussion ~~~~

23 April 2010

• 07:4307:43, 23 April 2010 diff hist −4 m PL/I →Language summary: extra blank line ~~~~
• 07:4007:40, 23 April 2010 diff hist +20 PL/I →Language summary: Add RETURN into the flow of control statements. ~~~~
• 07:3207:32, 23 April 2010 diff hist +27 PL/I →Goals and principles: Use Fortran not FORTRAN - it's the standard it seems. ~~~~
• 07:2607:26, 23 April 2010 diff hist 0 m PL/I →Goals and principles: ~~~~

22 April 2010

• 15:5615:56, 22 April 2010 diff hist +4 m PL/I →IBM PL/I F and D compilers: Link for "compiler" ~~~~

21 April 2010

• 20:0820:08, 21 April 2010 diff hist +137 PL/I →On-Units and Exception Handling: Minor wording improvements to my section. ~~~~
• 17:5917:59, 21 April 2010 diff hist +156 PL/I →Storage classes: Slight clean up of the wording, and use of system font throughout. ~~~~
• 17:2917:29, 21 April 2010 diff hist −30 PL/I →Significant features developed since the Standard: Remove line asking for help. No doubt it will come regardless. ~~~~
• 17:2717:27, 21 April 2010 diff hist +91 PL/I →Significant features omitted from the Standard: Note that the structured programming extensions were also implemented in DEC PL/I ~~~~

20 April 2010

• 17:2017:20, 20 April 2010 diff hist +220 Talk:PL/I →RETURN from ON-units
• 16:5616:56, 20 April 2010 diff hist +20 m PL/I →Storage type sharing
• 16:5416:54, 20 April 2010 diff hist +2,559 PL/I →On-Units and Exception Handling: More of the language, and reasons for it, are covered. ~~~~
• 16:4616:46, 20 April 2010 diff hist +6 PL/I →'On' block error trapping: Change the title prior to replacing section with more general one on on-units. ~~~~
• 12:3612:36, 20 April 2010 diff hist +107 m Talk:PL/I →RETURN from ON-units: ~~~~

19 April 2010

• 16:4616:46, 19 April 2010 diff hist +897 User talk:RogerofRomsey Explain the error in the new section. ~~~~
• 09:4409:44, 19 April 2010 diff hist +151 PL/I →'On' block error trapping: Point out that you cannot execute RETURN within an ON-unit. ~~~~

4 April 2010

• 08:2208:22, 4 April 2010 diff hist +4 m PL/I →Teaching subset compilers: ~~~~

2 April 2010

• 12:2212:22, 2 April 2010 diff hist −21 PL/I →Storage type sharing: Take out my UNSPEC stuff - too much detail. Strengthen the treatment of aliasing pointers as integers. ~~~~

1 April 2010

• 20:0820:08, 1 April 2010 diff hist +2,197 PL/I →Storage type sharing: I have expanded the material, and removed the "BASED9ADDR tern which is not part of PL/I ~~~~

11 March 2010

• 09:3909:39, 11 March 2010 diff hist +311 PL/I →Implementation Issues: Give concrete example of parsing difficulty - and improve wording. ~~~~

10 March 2010

• 18:0118:01, 10 March 2010 diff hist +257 PL/I →Special purpose and system PL/I compilers: Reference found for the PL/8 compiler design. Acknowledge Martin Hopkins ~~~~
• 09:3309:33, 10 March 2010 diff hist +38 PL/I →Early history: Bob Sheppard was from the GUIDE organization - see Radin article. ~~~~
• 09:2209:22, 10 March 2010 diff hist +82 PL/I →IBM PL/I Optimizing and Checkout compilers: Mention its successor. ~~~~
• 09:1709:17, 10 March 2010 diff hist +14 PL/I →Interrupt Handling: clarification ~~~~
• 09:1409:14, 10 March 2010 diff hist −40 PL/I →Program Readability – making intentions explicit: wording improvements ~~~~
• 09:0609:06, 10 March 2010 diff hist +1 m PL/I →Competitiveness on PC and with C
• 09:0309:03, 10 March 2010 diff hist +2 PL/I →IBM PL/I for OS/2, AIX, Linux, Z/OS: minor editing of my text ~~~~
• 08:5908:59, 10 March 2010 diff hist +257 PL/I →IBM PL/I for OS/2, AIX, Linux, Z/OS: improving my earlier writing. ~~~~
• 08:2708:27, 10 March 2010 diff hist +2 m PL/I →IBM PL/I for OS/2, AIX, Linux, Z/OS
• 08:2608:26, 10 March 2010 diff hist +1 m PL/I →IBM PL/I for OS/2, AIX, Linux, Z/OS
• 08:1908:19, 10 March 2010 diff hist +375 PL/I →Language summary: Indicate that there has been substantial implementation-specific extension to PL/I. ~~~~

9 March 2010

• 22:5622:56, 9 March 2010 diff hist +3 m PL/I →Interrupt Handling: ~~~~
• 22:5522:55, 9 March 2010 diff hist −7 m PL/I →Structured Programming Additions
• 22:5322:53, 9 March 2010 diff hist +2 m PL/I →Program Readability – making intentions explicit
• 22:5122:51, 9 March 2010 diff hist +19 PL/I →Competitiveness on PC and with C: Minor editing
• 22:4522:45, 9 March 2010 diff hist −5 m PL/I →Object orientation
• 18:1218:12, 9 March 2010 diff hist +7,044 PL/I →Implementations: A major segment is added describing language additions in the current IBM compiler family. ~~~~
• 17:5817:58, 9 March 2010 diff hist +744 Talk:PL/I →Implementations Section: New subsection for current IBM PL/I
• 10:3310:33, 9 March 2010 diff hist +183 PL/I →Special purpose and system PL/I compilers: Bit more detail about PL/8. ~~~~

8 March 2010

• 22:0222:02, 8 March 2010 diff hist +370 PL/I →Special purpose and system PL/I compilers: Update on PL/* based on telcon with M.E.Hopkins.
• 21:3921:39, 8 March 2010 diff hist +62 PL/I →Usage: Minor tweaking of Sabre PL/I based on discussion with M.E.Hopkons. ~~~~
• 11:5711:57, 8 March 2010 diff hist +59 PL/I →IBM PL/I F and D compilers: mention leader of druntime library group, Nobby Clarke. ~~~~