On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote:
> What terrible consequences? > > PL/I is still going strong and IBM were one of the biggest users internally > when I worked for them. > > ICI in the UK were big PL/I users too. > > Apart from a lack of available programmers, I would prefer to program in > PL/I than COBOL. > > I adored PL/I back in college. It was the 3rd language I learned about, after FORTRAN IV & COBOL. I've never had any use for FORTRAN, I'm not a scientist. Unfortunately, in the commercial "z" environment, COBOL is the language of choice. I really wish that there was a PL/I in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). I've got C, C++, Objective C, gfortran, gnat (ADA), and even GNU COBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL). I guess PL/I never took off in the UNIX world. -- Heisenberg may have been here. http://xkcd.com/1770/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
