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On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 7:50 PM, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > <pedantic>Not to be confused with the language "PL/I". > > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < > shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > >> In <0561414464209067.wa.bakersmagmail....@listserv.ua.edu>, on >> 10/02/2013 >> at 08:32 AM, M Baker <baker...@gmail.com> said: >> >> >Or perhaps from an alternate history perspective, whether PL/1 >> >would have proven "up to the task" functionally at that point ? >> >> PL/1 proved itself to be up to the task on Multics, but they had a >> better compiler. The issue for OS/360 was probably not the >> functionality of the language but the quality of the code generated by >> IBM's compilers. >> >> >And was PL/1 ever really implemented on predecessors to the 360 >> >> NICOL on the 7094 was derived from PL/1. Burroughs had a PL/1 >> complier, but I don't know whether it ran on the B5x00. >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT >> ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> >> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > > > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
