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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 17:51:59 -0700
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> 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.  
> 

Supposed to be NPL (New Programming Language) but some wonky organization
in the UK was already using that,

-- 
Pete