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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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On 27/09/2024 10:58, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:
> 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.

Their REAL name is EXEC-8 ;-)