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From: mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: PL/I (was write only memory)
Message-ID: <1725@sceard.Sceard.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 90 20:26:46 GMT
References: <4395@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <10926@ucsd.Edu> <1990Jan12.172801.2116@IDA.ORG> <1990Jan16.025832.22733@world.std.com>
Reply-To: mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy)
Organization: Sceard Systems, Inc.  San Marcos, CA  92069
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In article <1990Jan16.025832.22733@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
[stuff about PL/I]
>
>Everything was in there, but it was hardly a strength. Oh, and a macro
>pre-processor about as powerful as the rest of the language, had
>almost every control structure and variable type of the main language.
>-- 

And it ran in a 26K byte partition on an IBM Series/1 under RPS.

Did overlay a bit, though :-)

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Mike Murphy  Sceard Systems, Inc.  544 South Pacific St. San Marcos, CA  92069
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