Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 2024-09-27, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:

 

On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:06:36 +0000, rbowman wrote:
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On 25 Sep 2024 06:52:08 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:45:51 +0000, rbowman wrote:
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:14:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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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”

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IBM was always so modest. Programming Language One. A Programming
Language.

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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.

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Gary Kildall may have been doing that with PL/M, Programming Language
for Microprocessors. It did have some PL/I DNA.

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There are also PL-516, PL-11, ...

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PL.8

 And on the operating system side, I know of
OS/2, OS/3, OS/4, OS/7, and OS/9.