Are you asking what PL/I's pronouns are? On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 4:15 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> How does PL/I self-identify? > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Smith > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 12:52 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
