And you think that PICK wasn't? OK, OK, it was originally TRW, but running on IBM hardware (IBM 7090) and IBM was certainly in the mix for getting from Nelson's flow charts to an actual implementation. But, yes, you are right that the languages were developed by different companies. cheers! --dawn
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Ed Clark <u...@edclark.net> wrote: > naw. PL/I was an IBM creation. See wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I > > On Jan 31, 2011, at 11:47 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
