[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[gah4]

On Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 6:17:07 AM UTC-8, bill wrote:

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> Never really sure why PL/I came about but that's IBM. :-) 

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System/360 followed a series of business oriented machines, and a 
series of scientific machines.  The idea was one line that could do both.

PL/I was a combination of ideas from COBOL, ALGOL, and Fortran.
That is, a language that could do all.  

Originally, it was planned to use it instead of writing COBOL, ALGOL,
and Fortran compilers.