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  • Re: Naughty PL/I (was Re: naughty Pascal)

    From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Friday, January 09, 2026 18:38:58
    On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 08:13:59 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

    I spent a couple of years writing FORTRAN for the 1130. They called
    it FORTRAN IV, but it was more like III.V, but still better than OS
    FORTRAN at the time. Later I worked on an XDS Sigma system, and
    their FORTRAN was great (as you'd expect with its SDS heritage). At
    the time I liked the language, but I always preferred PL/I.

    When PL/I was still under development, at one point it was going to be
    called ?FORTRAN VI?.

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