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From: Paige Vinall <vinall@VNET.IBM.COM>
Organization: PL/I Development, IBM
Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
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Date: 1994-12-06T16:49:43-08:00
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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