Good tidbit re Stratus. That's cool that you could call PL/I (thanks for the correction, I thought it was PL/1) from within Pick. Yes, I recall Multics was written in PL/I (and of course googling confirms that).
You are right that when it comes to the history of computing, IBM has had their hands in a whole lot of it. [They seem so on the periphery of anything I'm interested in right now, so I will be curious to see what they care about in the coming years. I'm wondering what they will do with NoSQL directions (Oracle has BerkeleyDB, for example, but IBM seems short on this front now). I haven't been following IBM of late, however.] cheers! --dawn On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Ed Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] 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 >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> U2-Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dawn M. Wolthuis >> >> Take and give some delight today >> _______________________________________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
