Re: The joy of FORTRAN

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, ...