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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:52:03 -0700
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Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:06:36 +0000, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> On 25 Sep 2024 06:52:08 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:45:51 +0000, rbowman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:14:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> PL/I was IBM’s attempt at a Grand Unification of both “business” and
>>>>> “scientific” programming in one language. If you thought C++
>>>>> programming was full of surprises when your program did unexpected
>>>>> things, PL/I invented the whole genre of “surprise-ridden programming
>>>>> language”
>>>> 
>>>> IBM was always so modest. Programming Language One. A Programming
>>>> Language.
>>> 
>>> A colleague of mine wrote a powerful macro processor (which I still use
>>> and maintain). He called it Macro Language One - ML/I. He loved taking
>>> the piss out of IBM.
>> 
>> Gary Kildall may have been doing that with PL/M, Programming Language
>> for Microprocessors. It did have some PL/I DNA.
> 
> There are also PL-516, PL-11, ...
> 

PL.8

-- 
Pete