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From: abg@sei.cmu.edu (Anthony Gargaro)
Subject: Re: acronym PL/I (Formerly Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?)
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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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