From: Nemo Nusquam <cym224@gmail.com>
To: coff@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] PL/1 [Was: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation]
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:57:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c77c5be6-9d35-7f74-998d-01074ce9778c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBdVnPQMaDX0jOL81EkL1M7Eg=U4qWPwKMsr6SBc2Zz9vw@mail.gmail.com>
Over to COFF...
On 2021-11-23 02:57, Henry Bent wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 21:31, Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net
> <mailto:mah@mhorton.net>> wrote:
>
> PL/I was my favorite mainframe programming language my last two
> years as
> an undergrad. I liked how it incorporated ideas from FORTRAN,
> ALGOL, and
> COBOL. My student job was to enhance a PL/I package for a History
> professor.
>
>
> What language were the PL/I compilers written in?
From AFIPS '69 (Fall): "The Multics compiler is the only PL/1 compiler
written in PL/1 [...]"
HOPL I has a talk on the early history of PL/1 (born as NPL) but nothing
on the question.
N.
>
> Wikipedia claims that IBM is still developing a PL/I compiler, which I
> suppose I have no reason to disbelieve, but I'm very curious as to who
> is using it and for what purpose.
>
> -Henry
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2021-11-16 18:54 ` [COFF] Joys of PL/I " Nemo Nusquam
2021-11-16 19:40 ` Charles H Sauer
2021-11-16 20:20 ` Bakul Shah
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2021-11-23 15:23 ` [COFF] [TUHS] Book Recommendation Clem Cole
2021-11-24 0:38 ` [COFF] Self-hosting languages (was: Book Recommendation) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-11-24 1:48 ` Brantley Coile
2021-11-23 19:40 ` [COFF] [TUHS] Book Recommendation Dan Cross
2021-11-24 1:57 ` Nemo Nusquam [this message]
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