In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/18/2008
at 01:09 PM, "Mark S. Waterbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>BSL was the first version of IBM's internal HLL for systems programming.
>BSL is to PL/S as PL/S is to PL/X.
Correct.
>AFAIK, OS/360 PCP, MFT and MVT were developed almost entirely in BAL.
ITYM Assembleer (E) or Assembler (F), except for some early work on a
7094.
>was not until well into the evolution of MVT that BSL was first used for
> much of TSO and some other utilities.
Well, as I recall TSO didn't come along until release 20.1, and I'm not
aware of any earlier BSL use.
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