[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/3/2018 5:07 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
> On 02-Aug-18 11:22 AM, Tim Sneddon wrote:
>> Enterprise PL/I was first released in 1992, so you can look back to 
>> the 80's
>> for a compiler that was not written in assembler and ran on z/OS/MVS/etc.
>> IBM has been in the dark-ages of computing for a very long time when 
>> it comes
>> to their mainframe, even worse than VMS has been.
> 
> Timbo knows a shit load more than me regarding PL/I, BLISS, and 
> compilers/parsers in general but I was "programming" (learning) PL/I on 
> VAX in 1983.

And?

Tim was saying that the first version of the current PL/I
compiler for IBM mainframe was released in 1992.

That does not contradict that you did PL/I on VMS in 1983.

It would not even contradict that you did PL/I on IBM
mainframe in 1983, as IBM had other earlier PL/I compilers
(supposedly the first one showed up in 1966).

Arne