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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/08/28
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<<Maybe it didn't _need_ it, but PL/I has certainly _received_ quite
a bit of updating.  Compare modern OS/2 PL/I with the 1976 ANSI PL/I
standard.  Even compare it with the MVS PL/I compiler of 1989 (the
last time I saw an MVS PL/I manual) and you'll notice a lot of additions.>>

One would hope so, since the 1976 standard is pretty rusty by modern standards,
which is not surprising for a language inspired by the Fortran, COBOL and
Algol-60 designs of the early-mid sixties. In particular, ANSI PL/1 has
a very limited abstraction capability, no information hiding capability,
and a very primitive approach to concurrency.