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From: R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:58:37 +0200
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Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2024-09-27, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> And on the operating system side, I know of
> OS/2, OS/3, OS/4, OS/7, and OS/9.
> 

OS1100 bzw. OS2200.