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PL/I is a procedural, imperative computer programming language developed and published by IBM. It is designed for scientific, engineering, business and system programming. It has been used by academic, commercial and industrial organizations since it was introduced in the 1960s, and is still
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See moreIn the 1950s and early 1960s, business and scientific users programmed for different computer hardware using different programming languages. Business users were moving from Autocoders
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See moreLanguage standardization began in April 1966 in Europe with ECMA TC10. In 1969 ANSI established a "Composite Language Development Committee",
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See moreIBM PL/I F and D compilers
PL/I was first implemented by IBM, at its Hursley Laboratories in the United Kingdom, as part of the development of System/360. The first production PL/I compiler was the PL/I F compiler for the OS/360 Operating...
See moreThe goals for PL/I evolved during the early development of the language. Competitiveness with COBOL's record handling and report
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See moreThe language is designed to be all things to all programmers. The summary is extracted from the ANSI PL/I Standard and the ANSI PL/I General-Purpose Subset Standard.
A PL/I program consists of a set of procedures, each of which...
See more• PL/S, a dialect of PL/I, initially called BSL was developed in the late 1960s and became the system programming language for IBM mainframes.
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See morePL/I implementations were developed for mainframes from the late 1960s, mini computers in the 1970s, and personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s. Although its main use has been on mainframes, there are PL/I versions for DOS,
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