Frightening, naw.  IMHO ALC was/is one of the great languages.  You "could"
write very powerful & clean (easy to understand) code.  Not something I
want to forget.

Ric


At 02:41 PM 2/15/2002 -0800, Mark Bixby wrote:
>Douglas Becker wrote:
>
>> For those who might be interested, there is a still functional working IBM
>> 370 Basic Assembly Language (BAL) environment that works on the PC; the
>> PC/370 v4.2 IBM 370 assembler and emulator is at:
>>
>> http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/45216.html
>>
>> You can write and execute IBM 370 Assember on your PC in a DOS box.
>
>
>Wow.  It's EXTREMELY frightening that I can read that demo code and still
>understand ALC after having been away for ~15 years.
>
>Who do I complain to about the crappy garbage collection routines inside my
>brain?  ;-)
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