From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: mah@mhorton.net, henry.r.bent@gmail.com
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 01:10:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202111230810.1AN8Ag1c012469@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBdVnPQMaDX0jOL81EkL1M7Eg=U4qWPwKMsr6SBc2Zz9vw@mail.gmail.com>
Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 21:31, Mary Ann Horton <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?
>
> 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
PL/1 compiler for Linux: http://www.iron-spring.com/
PL/1 front end for GCC (looks dead): pl1gcc.sourceforge.net
:-)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-23 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-16 14:57 Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 15:22 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-16 15:52 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-23 2:28 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-11-23 7:57 ` Henry Bent
2021-11-23 8:10 ` arnold [this message]
2021-11-23 8:28 ` Henry Bent
2021-11-23 17:26 ` Adam Thornton
2021-11-23 18:54 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-23 19:04 ` Al Kossow
2021-11-23 19:39 ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-11-23 19:08 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-23 21:54 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-11-24 15:18 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-24 15:45 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-24 18:34 ` Rich Morin
2021-11-24 18:40 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-24 19:39 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-24 20:02 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-26 19:49 ` [TUHS] AIX/SMIT (was Book Recommendation) Greg A. Woods
2021-11-25 10:26 ` [TUHS] Book Recommendation Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-11-25 12:20 ` [TUHS] AIX/SMIT (was Re: Book Recommendation) Stuart Remphrey
2021-11-24 20:13 ` [TUHS] Book Recommendation arnold
2021-11-24 20:18 ` Will Senn
2021-11-25 7:22 ` arnold
2021-11-24 20:15 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-24 20:21 ` joe mcguckin
2021-11-24 20:27 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-24 21:27 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-24 22:19 ` Charles Anthony
2021-11-24 22:29 ` [TUHS] PL/I stuff - was: " Will Senn
2021-11-24 23:00 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-24 23:13 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-25 1:48 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-11-25 2:03 ` George Michaelson
2021-11-25 14:47 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-26 22:20 ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-26 22:33 ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-27 0:23 ` Dennis Boone
2021-11-27 0:30 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-27 0:47 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-11-27 2:43 ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-27 0:56 ` Warner Losh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-12-03 2:50 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-06 4:25 ` Adam Thornton
2021-12-06 4:42 ` Dan Halbert
2021-12-06 5:18 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-11-24 15:50 Norman Wilson
2021-11-16 19:49 Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 20:02 ` Dan Cross
2021-11-16 23:16 ` Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 17:00 Douglas McIlroy
[not found] ` <CAKH6PiXinxBQGRqoeGMcG9CwTA5BNeU-LY164f-ZLYA4obsyuA@mail.g mail.com>
2021-11-16 18:47 ` John Foust via TUHS
2021-11-16 20:35 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 21:35 ` Duncan Mak
2021-12-02 22:32 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 22:34 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-16 3:16 Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 4:08 ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-11-16 14:56 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-16 15:37 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-16 15:50 ` Adam Thornton
2021-11-16 17:02 ` Will Senn
2021-11-16 21:38 ` John Cowan
2021-11-16 21:46 ` Will Senn
2021-11-16 18:27 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-16 18:44 ` Heinz Lycklama
2021-11-14 14:37 Clem Cole
2021-11-14 14:55 ` Dennis Boone
2021-11-14 16:35 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-11-14 18:20 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-14 18:44 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-14 18:52 ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-11-14 19:27 ` Clem Cole
2021-11-15 9:49 ` Ralph Corderoy
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