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From: wesommer@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (William Sommerfeld)
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Subject: Re: What should be added to C, call it PL/2
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Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 11:25:10 EDT
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In article <264@brl-sem.ARPA> ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:
>You don't want to call it PL/2 anyway because it's not PL/1 it is PL/I.

On Multics (the distant ancestor of UNIX), it's PL/1; the compiler is
called "pl1", programs are foo.pl1, etc.  Considering the (historical)
circumstances, I think it would be more approprate to call it PL/2.
But then, Multics PL/1 is a systems programming language, used to
write most of the system, and is somewhat different (in programming
environment, at least) from IBM PL/I.

					Bill Sommerfeld
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