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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 25 Sep 2024 07:06:36 GMT
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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.