Re: FORRTRAN CANT (was: Alternative COBOL "telco" source program)
From: robin (robin_v_at_bigpond.mapson.com)
Date: 05/28/04
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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 23:43:27 GMT
lruss@superlink.net (L Russ) writes:
> robin <robin_v@bigpond.mapson.com> wrote in message news:<Iadtc.12799$L.1063@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> > From: "Michael Mattias" <michael.mattias@gte.net>, SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
> > Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:09:48 GMT
> > .
> > | Some of these "can'ts" are so incredibly banal...
> > .
> > They all are.
>
> They are all worse, much worse, than banal.
agreed.
A beginner could solve most of them,
> > .
> > | e.g., # 18 "CANT find last
> > | word index in trailing blank text using a loop <= 3 statements."
> > .
> > Not only can this be done in PL/I,
> > it can be done by a beginner.
> > Furthermore, it can be done in PL/I in one statement.
>
> But if you do it in one statement, then it's not in a loop, and CAN'T
> 18 clearly states that you should use a loop, with at most 3
> statements, implying that using a loop (with three statements or less)
> is really the important thing when you do this task.
The only reason for this silly "rule"
is that Frank can't do it any other way.
FORRTRAN can't do it with a 2-statement DO loop either.
But what Frank can't comprehend is that
as PL/I has varying strings, there is little
call for such a task, as trailing blanks
usually don't occur.
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