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From: alexande@borland.com (Mark Alexander)
Subject: Re: PL/I compiler
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.160509.22483@borland.com>
Organization: Borland International
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 16:05:09 GMT

In article <551@trux.UUCP> car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:
>So the thought of running PL/M on CP/M isn't as far fetched as one would think.

But PL/M is a much lower-level language than PL/I, or even C. It was
designed to be relatively efficient on the primitive microprocessors
of the mid '70s, on which PL/I would be unthinkable.