It might be fun to try and make a list of things that IBM *didn't* have a hand in or influence on, or even only just accidentally handle for a while (like U2) :) It would be like trying to rewrite The Lord of the Rings without Sauron (Or maybe more like rewriting The Silmarillion without Morgoth. I think Microsoft is more Sauron and Apple is quickly following Saruman's errors, but that's conversation for different mailing list). Anyway, PL/I was IBM's one programming language to rule them all (Programming Language/One)
You could maybe make an indirect connection between PL/I and Pick. Stratus computer's multics-based VOS operating system was written mostly in PL/I. So some of their version of PICK OA was probably written in PL/I as well. From inside of Stratus Pick you could call out to PL/I transaction processing code. On Jan 31, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Dawn Wolthuis wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
