FORTRAN VI -> NPL -> MPPL -> PL/I At the time I thought that MPPL was a hideous acronym.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of CM Poncelet [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 9:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PL/I question +1 It was initially called Fortran VI, because it was considered too advanced to be called Fortran V (1962), then NPL (1964, but could not because it was the acronym of the National Physical Laboratory [or similar] in the UK,) and then PL/I - with the '/' from OS/360 and the Roman 'I' to preserve its originally having been called Fortran VI. On 23/03/2022 00:52, Phil Smith III wrote: > Bob Bridges wrote: > >> PL/1 was my first language. > > > Only it's "PL/I". "Programming Language/One", but "PL/I". Just sayin'. > > > > It actually might have been PL/C on that Xerox 530. Soooo long ago. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
