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by Edward Hurley, Editor
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Ever ponder how programming languages get their names?
Do programming language creators come up with the actual name that is descriptive and the abbreviation logically follows?
Or do they come up with an abbreviation or acronym they like and then find words to match it? (The US Congress did that when they passed the USA PATRIOT Act, which stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.")
The creators of the "Restructured Extended Executor" language are probably in this camp. The name hardly rolls off the tongue. But Rexx, with its regal implication, is a lot easier to say.
FORTRAN, on the other hand, stands for "FORmula TRANslation," which is pretty descriptive of what it does.
There are other ways programming languages are named of course. For example, scripting language PHP, which is a recursive acronym, stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor." The history of Java's name is kind of murky. Some say it was named such because the developers were fond of a particular coffee shop. Others say it was named after the key developers: James Gosling, Arthur Van Hoff and Andy Bechtolsheim.
Now, we come to the subject of this week's Featured Topic, PL/I. When I first started covering mainframes, I figured PL/I stood for some utterly technical name. So I was surprised when I found out it stood for simply "Programming Language One."
Do you know a lot about PL/I? Or are you unfamiliar with it? In either case, you would benefit by checking out this week's Featured Topic on PL/I. You can find it by clicking here.
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PL/I for newbies
by the editors of Search390.com
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When contemplating mainframe programming languages, PL/I definitely comes to mind. True, it's not as famous as COBOL or as feared as assembler but nothing can take away from its importance to the mainframe. We have collected our best PL/I tips and advice for this week's Featured Topic. Check them out today.
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Featured Expert Gerhard Adam, president, SYSPRO Inc.
Categories:Systems management
Gerhard Adam offers 30 years of experience in large systems computing with specialization in performance, capacity planning, and z/OS internals. He has been involved in software development extending from access method interfaces and telecommunications to AFP software. Gerhard also has developed courses for IBM Education in MVS internals, performance, client/server computing, and systems management. Currently Gerhard is teaching classes around the country on a variety of z/OS and WLM topics. In
addition to working with various education companies, Gerhard has shared his expertise with Landmark Systems Corp., IBM Education, National Bank of Detroit, Grand Trunk Western Railroad, and the U.S. Marine Corps.
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IBM's assembler programming language and the assembler itself for the IBM OS/390, MVS, VM, and VSE operating systems. Find this and more in the Search390.com glossary.
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