Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 27/09/2024 01:51, Peter Flass wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> 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.
>

 Supposed to be NPL (New Programming Language) but some wonky organization
in the UK was already using that,
 

The "wonky" organization is the National Physical Laboratory where,
among other achievements, the world's first caesium-133 atomic clock
was created.
--
Bill F.