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I remember using the Cornell PL/C compiler. You could enter something like PU LIST('Hello, world! and it would generate a raft of error messages, followed by

I remember using the Cornell PL/C compiler. You could enter something like PU LIST('Hello, world! and it would generate a raft of error messages, followed by running the program and displaying Hello, world! PL/C's heroic error correction dates from when student programs got 2 or 3 runs per day.

euroderf 2y ago
Yes, heroic error correction ! It was cool.
jdougan 2y ago
We used to joke that if you fed the IBM PL/1 compiler a blank file, it would compile a default program. Probably a matrix multiply.