On 04/11/2017 07:03 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote: > The Balkanized nature of programming is interesting. > > I make a comment about C and get a flurry of responses, but ask a > question about a programming language that is also very common for > machine control and get no response at all. Not even a recognition > of its existence. > > Siemens STL ist a programming language for machine controllers. It > is oriented towards Boolean operations and extended for integer and > real data types. Symbolic addressing is almost completely absent.
You might find more fertile ground plowing the plctalk.net forum when your questions relate to the STL/SCL/FBD/LAD/CSF area. FWIW, "STL" in Siemens-talk is an acronym for "Statement List". Why it isn't "SL" is anyone's guess. --Chuck
