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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
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Subject: Re: PL/1 vs PL/I (Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?)
Date: 19 Dec 1994 20:19:33 GMT
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In article <3d1egn$n3m@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
writes: 

|> 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

Since less is more, I ought to point out that when this department (in
the mid-70's, before I came here) designed a subset consisting of roughly
80% of PL/I, they named it pl.8 (pronounced "point eight").

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Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com