When I joined IBM in Poughkeepsie in 1968, I learned BSL, Basic Systems Language.
As I've understood language evolution over the years, BSL became PL/S. There was
no visible hint that BSL had any academic connection.
Speculating: Perhaps Stanford had research-purposes access to PL/S and reported
on it but
didn't originate it?
Alan Ackerman said:
I'm only an outsider, so I everything I say is only rumors. On the other
hand, my job won't be threatened if I tell them, as insiders might be.
PL/S, PL/AS, PL/X, etc. are PL/I-like system programming languages.
(Kind of like C is in the Unix world.) PL/S originally was invented at
Stanford -- they published a paper on it (which I read in the UCSC
library).
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