[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/11/2023 8:05 PM, gah4 wrote:
> 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.

Yes. The "if we create a language that can do anything then
this will be the only language the entire wold will need" and
"if some features are good then more features must be better
and all features must be best" mentality.

PL/I, C++, Ada95, Scala seems to suffer from that mentality.

I don't agree with it and I think we can conclude that the
world does not agree.

Multiple simpler languages with good interoperability
is the way to go IMHO.

Arne