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9. Was not an imaginary problem

Tue Jun 18, 2019, 09:02 AM

Jun 2019

Was originally intended to be the new version of FORTRAN, the New Programming Language (NPL). Yes, the resulting language included many of the features of FORTRAN, COBOL, and ALGOL. Yes, it was designed by a committee. (At least it was designed unlike messes like C and C++.) But interestingly, even more features were later included in FORTRAN (and even in Basic!) than were in PL/I.

The PL/I Standards Committee actually pounded the language significantly in producing a General Purpose Subset which has supplanted the Full language in mire-recent implementations.

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