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  3. November 1997

Re: PL/I Visibility.

  • Subject: Re: PL/I Visibility.
  • From: "Rick Baird" <rbbaird@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 19:40:50 -0500
  • Organization: Premium Systems, Inc.
 
Vern Hamberg wrote:
 
> JMHO
> 
> I get extremely frustrated when programming examples are only written
> in PL/I. This can often happen in redbooks. I wasn't around when PL/I
> had a chance, and the fact is that we don't have the product on any of
> our machines—or, like REXX, is it on all 400's without IBM telling us?

I think I read somewhere that IBM was dropping support for pl/1 on the
400.  

Funny thing, I also remember something about the fact that OS/400 was
originally written using pl/1.

rick
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