PL-1 programming

This book charts the incidence of territorial changes and military conflicts from 1816 to 1980. Using statistical and descriptive analysis, the authors attempt to answer three related sets of questions: * When does military conflict accompany the process of national independence? * When do states fight over territorial changes and when are such transactions completed peacefully? * How do territorial changes affect future military conflict between the states involved in the exchange? Programming--whether it becomes a career or not--can be fun. It's like playing a game--a game for which you can get paid. Working in the field of computers teaches logical thinking, and allows for creative problem solving, often of wholly original problems. PL/I is a powerful language that can be used to solve both business and scientific problems. This textbook presents the PL/I language in as simple and logical a manner as possible. There are checkpoint questions at the ends of selected instructional sections (along with the correct answers), and various appendices for quick reference when working through these problems Charts the incidence of conflict since 1816, using statistical and descriptive analysis to uncover the relationship between national independence, territorial change and military confrontation.