* Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
@ 1994-12-07 0:49 Paige Vinall
1994-12-10 17:07 ` acronym PL/I (Formerly Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?) Anthony Gargaro
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From: Paige Vinall @ 1994-12-07 0:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
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.
Paige Vinall - PL/I Development Manager, IBM
Internet: vinall@vnet.ibm.com, Phone: (408) 463-2106
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* Re: acronym PL/I (Formerly Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?)
1994-12-07 0:49 Why don't large companies use Ada? Paige Vinall
@ 1994-12-10 17:07 ` Anthony Gargaro
1994-12-15 12:40 ` John English
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From: Anthony Gargaro @ 1994-12-10 17:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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* Re: acronym PL/I (Formerly Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?)
1994-12-10 17:07 ` acronym PL/I (Formerly Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?) Anthony Gargaro
@ 1994-12-15 12:40 ` John English
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From: John English @ 1994-12-15 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
Anthony Gargaro (abg@sei.cmu.edu) wrote:
: 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).
I also seem to remember that IBM toyed with MPPL (Multi Purpose Programming
Language) for a while but deemed it too ugly, and that when they finally
gave up trying to think of a nice name and plumped for PL/1 they copyrighted
PL/2 to PL/100 just to be on the safe side (but not PL/M or PL/360 :-)
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