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From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
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Subject: Re: Time For Keyword Parameters In Prog. Langs
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Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 14:46:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 17 14:46:42 1984
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I believe that LIS, designed by Jean Ichbiah and others 
(at IRIA ?) in the mid-70's, had keyword parameters
(I can't provide a reference for any papers on it at the moment;
send me mail if you would like me to dig for it).
I have no idea whether they had a development environment
in which that style was ingrained.
I think that Ichbiah is now at ALSys, an Ada-oriented company
somewhere in Europe, these days.

IBM's proprietary internal systems programming language 
PL/S (or its macro processor) also had keyword parameters,
but there were no tools that embodied that style.
It was difficult enough just to get the division responsible for it
(the mainframe people in Poughkeepsie) to maintain it.

-- Clay Phipps

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