[Info-vax] PL/I reference book

[Tom Linden]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:31:50 -0700, H Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> wrote:

> Actually this is really just a question for Tom Linden, but others
> might be interested in the answer too so here goes. I haven't used PL/
> I since 1982 and the only manual I've got is a Burroughs B7700 PL/I
> reference manual.
> I want to relearn the language and the question is whether there is a
> tutorial PL/I, still available/in print, that you could recommend?
> Hans

You can download the Language Reference and User Guide from our site.

Also, Eberhard Sturm has just translated his german language version
into english, I edited one of the chapters.

"The new PL/I"

has been published. You can order it directly from publisher
Vieweg+Teubner or from any online seller using ISBN code

    978-3-8348-0726-7.

These sites have some links
http://www.softpanorama.org/Lang/pl1.shtml
www.kednos.com

Here is IBM's documentation
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/pli/plizos/library/

We have added a feature to the compiler which will translate
PL/I declarations to Java classes.

It is available for hobbyists.  Runs on VAX and Alpha, image
translator available for Itanium.

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