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From: Aron Felix Gurski <agurski@sn.no>
Subject: Re: spate of programming languages
Date: 1996/07/27
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Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> In article <31F93F02.23D2@sn.no>, Aron Felix Gurski  <agurski@sn.no> wrote:
> >... a registered trademark (unlike PL/1 up to PL/100).
> 
> Are you saying that these are registered trademarks, presumably of IBM?
> So that if I sell a language called PL/100, I'll get in trouble, but if
> I sell PL/101, it's OK?
> 
> - Bob

Yes! Back in '71 there was a group developing a programming language 
here in Norway tht they wanted to call PL/70. They checked it out and
found that IBM had registered as trademarks PL/1 to PL/100 and, 
therefore, had to call the programming language something else 
(eventually, it was called Mary -- which presumably is *not* 
a registered trademark ;-)  )

					-- Aron