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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada versus PL/I (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?)
Date: 1996/09/04
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Date: 1996-09-04T00:00:00+00:00
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robin said

"---The first edition c. 1966 of IBM's PL/I Reference Manual
for the S/360 (PL/I-F compiler) called it "PL/I"."

Yes, of course that is true. But I assume you are aware of the NPL
papers that preceded this renaming of the language ...