The name has been PL/I after some earlier names, not PL/1 ----- Original Message ----- From: "IBM Mainframe Assembler List" @listserv.uga.edu> To:<[email protected]> Cc: Sent:Fri, 29 Jun 2018 21:27:12 +0000 Subject:Re: An idea I got when researching a bug - warnings when a specific register is changed
The name was PL/1 but got changed. Before PL/1 it was NPL, then MPPL. PL/C was fast, but we had students resorting to the "optimizing" compiler when they couldn't find a bug using PL/C or Checkout.
