[TUHS] Harvard's PPL, Polymorphic Programming Language

Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Sun May 31 15:52:49 AEST 2026


Hello,

I recently discovered a copy of the PPL "Polymorphic Programming Langauge".
https://github.com/PDP-10/harvard-ppl

Even though it seems to have enjoyed over a decade as an educational
tool, it seems to have dissapeared almost without a trace.  The
Wikipedia page is very sparse.

On topic for TUHS, PPL was ported to Unix and used at "several
universities".  Has anyone seen this programming language in the
archives?


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