[COFF] PL/1 [Was: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation]

[Nemo Nusquam]

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On 2021-11-23 02:57, Henry Bent wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 21:31, Mary Ann Horton <mah at mhorton.net 
> <mailto:mah at 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