Re: learning PL/1 --

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> [Attachment(s) <#TopText> from Ron Hudson included below]
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> Hi All
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> Who is 'into' PL/1?
>
> So I am beginning a two week period off school, wherein I would like 
> to learn some PL/1
>
> I have IBM PL1-MVS-VM-Lang Ref.PDF  but for this problem it's not helping.
>
> For my first program the computer will guess the users number - so far 
> I actually put
> the number in the program itself later the user will interact with the 
> program.
>
> Currently I am getting a message about the way I have declared a 
> variable in a function
> and what I am returning (listing attached)
>
> btw the only reason for the NOT function is because I don't know how 
> to type a 'not' character.
>
> Note that as it stand this program would simply run to time our output 
> limit because I am not
> updating things inside the loop - but it's not running anyway.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ron.
>
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Ron, I can't do diddly-squat with your attachment.  You might do better 
by simply imbedding the questionable parts of your program into your 
message.

A "Logical NOT" on a standard 3270 is the upper-case version of a 
numeral 6. It looks like a capital "L", rotated 90 degrees 
counter-clockwise and flipped so that the sign faces down instead of up. 
Sort of like a horizontal line with no support at the right end. I don't 
know how your terminal emulator processes the value, but in S/360 hex 
it's a X'5F'.

I can help with PL/1, since it was my "second language", after 
Assembler. and before FORTRAN. Talk to me off-list and we'll see what 
can be done.

Rick