How does PL/I self-identify? Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 12:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PL/I question Obviously they are not. As a matter of fact, there *is* one correct way (and the trademark owner would be happy to say so), and no number of errors or passage of time changes that. So it will be occasionally mentioned. One might complain about IBM's history of lousy names for its products. The standard for a long time was obviously to form an initialism from a string of 2-4 vague words. Old story is that if IBM had invented sushi, it would be called "CDF" (cold dead fish). The fact that not all sushi has fish of any temperature or vitality can be considered part of the joke. sas On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:00 AM Rupert Reynolds <rreyno...@cix.co.uk> wrote: > I think the days of trying to say there is only one correct way to write > its name are long gone! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
