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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
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Date: 1994-12-06T19:00:16+01:00
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G'day,

Here's a totally non-Ada question.

Way back in the dim dark past while studying at (yes, and graduating from (-: )
Uni. of NSW in Sydney I had to do some programming in PL/1. I'm sure that this
was pronounced as "pee-ell-one." I see that Robert Dewar (among others) writes
it as PL/1, yet I see that Dave Emery (along with others) writes it as PL/I.
Most of the Germans here at Eurocontrol swear "black-and-blue" that it is called
"pee-ell-eye." Yet I remember that the "eye" was supposed to be read as a Roman
numeral.

Is my memory playing tricks? What is the correct version?

BTW Sorry to take up bandwidth from that **incredibly important** "XYZ's Horribl
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'Avagoodone!
Bob W. (-:

P.S. The PL/(I1) question is a serious one, not important one, but not a joke
question either! (-: