On Tue 7 February, 2006 01:14 Alan Ackerman wrote: > 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).
You're not thinking of PL/360 by any chance? I believe PL/S and the others are descendents of BSL (Basic Systems Language, which much of e.g. TSO for MVT Release 20 was written in), and are True Blue inventions. PL/360 has essentially Algol syntax, while PL/S has that of PL/I. Tony H.
