Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language: PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages.
The article focuses on PL/I, which stands for Programming Language 1, and how its ambitious goals as a programming language. The author discusses the design of PL/I by International Business Machines (IBM) and explains how it brings together their three programming languages FORTRAN (1954), ALGOL (1...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 66; no. 11; pp. 6 - 8 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Nov2023
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on PL/I, which stands for Programming Language 1, and how its ambitious goals as a programming language. The author discusses the design of PL/I by International Business Machines (IBM) and explains how it brings together their three programming languages FORTRAN (1954), ALGOL (1958), and COBOL (1959). |
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