On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 9:37 PM dn via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> On 16/02/2021 17.57, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 8:52 PM Igor Korot <ikoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi, guys, > >> Let me try to throw in another one - PL/1. > >> This guys used to be very popular with the accounting community... > >> > > > > Actually PL/I is basically proprietary Pascal - from IBM. My Intro Comp > > Sci classes at the University of Cincinnati were in PL/I, because IBM had > > an office not far from the University, and they liked to hire interns > from > > UCinci. I was told that otherwise the classes would've been in Pascal. > > > Might a coincidence of location have been conflated with language > development? > Nah. All 3 are in the Algol family: Algol, Pascal, PL/I. I'll grant you that PL/I is a "big language" though. It didn't rely on external libraries as much as it should have. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
