From: abg@sei.cmu.edu (Anthony Gargaro)
Subject: Re: acronym PL/I (Formerly Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?)
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 12:07:02 EST
Date: 1994-12-10T12:07:02-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1994Dec10.120702.10352@sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9412070053.AA05549@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
In article <9412070053.AA05549@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>, Paige Vinall <vinall@VNET.IBM.COM> writes:
|> The official name is PL/I (as specified by the ANSI standards). It
|> stands for "Programming Language One". The "I" is a roman numeral.
|> Using an arabic one is incorrect. Before PL/I, it was briefly called
|> NPL for "New Programming Language" but the acronym conflicted with Net
|> Propulsion Laboratory. "PL/1" is incorrect but used so heavily that I
|> don't bother correcting people.
Another issue with the acronym NPL was that it conflicted with the National
Physical Laboratory (NPL, Teddington, UK). This was more significant, if I
recall correctly, because the first PL/I compiler was developed at Hursley
Park near Winchester (England).
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1994-12-07 0:49 Why don't large companies use Ada? Paige Vinall
1994-12-10 17:07 ` Anthony Gargaro [this message]
1994-12-15 12:40 ` acronym PL/I (Formerly Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?) John English
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