Re: PL/I

the standards committee disbanded...and it lacked the marketing that JAVA
has had of late...and the implementation on the midrange (S/38 and 400)
was a small subset of the mainframe language and it really kinda sucked at
times...

But it's still available on the PC platforms...and in some areas going
great guns...and it's still very popular on the mainframes...

PL/I was the BEST of FORTRAN and COBOL with really nice string
functionality for its time...

Don in DC

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Colin Williams wrote:

> Many people seem to mention how good PL/I is/was. 
> 
> If so, what happened to it (It was before my time)?
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