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Thank goodness for PL/I (better than C, better than Fortran, better than Pascal)

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Robin Vowels

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Feb 9, 2012, 1:43:41 AM2/9/12
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I transcribed a program from Pascal to PL/I. The author claimed that
only an array required long integers;
all scalar variables were ordinary (short) integers.

Fortunately, as always, I enabled subscriptrange, size, and
fixedoverflow,
for a fixed-point overflow occurred part-way in the results (derived
iteratively).

That allowed me to ascertain quickly which variable was involved.
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