24 Nov
2021
24 Nov
'21
1:57 a.m.
Over to COFF...
On 2021-11-23 02:57, Henry Bent wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 21:31, Mary Ann Horton
<mah(a)mhorton.net
<mailto:mah@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