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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: PL/1 vs PL/I (Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?)
Date: 18 Dec 1994 08:47:03 -0500
Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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I think it is wrong to say that PL/I was called this because of lack of
confidence. In fact it was more like the "one" in 

A-1 Autobody Repair Inc.

i.e. the "we're number one" of programming languages

the original title in all the papers was NPL (new programming language).