I don't know of any connection between the languages of PICK and PL/1 other than the timing. The similar terms would make sense because they were the words of the industry (some coming from Fortran, for example). MV BASIC stemmed from Data/BASIC which also took some terms from Fortran.
I do not know if Nelson or others at TRW involved at the start of PICK had seen PL/1, but it is likely that someone would have at least taken a look by 1969 when I think perhaps the first PICK app went live? FWIW I converted one PL/1 program on a UNIVAC to COBOL on an IBM 3081 in about 1983 IIRC. I don't think of folks migrating from PL/1 to Pick, but would be curious if anyone did. --dawn On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:47 AM, <charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com> wrote: > Cleaning out the old room where everything computer related gets sent to. > Came across a book on a programming language called PL/I. Just taking a > quick look, I saw some familiar statements like CONVERT, PROC, INPUT, > CHAR, PRINT, FORMAT, LIKE, LOCATE. Is this coincidence, or was PL/I part > of the early days of Pick? Apparently PL/I came into use in the 1960s > around the time Pick was developed. > > Charles Shaffer > Senior Analyst > NTN-Bower Corporation > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
