Re: OT: PL/I was Re: Please welcome . . .

Jeff Jones wrote:
>
> Ph. D. wrote:
> >
> >PL/I was implemented by a number of manufacturers. I have
> >used it on a Univac 1110 mainframe
> 
> Did the programs actually ever run??? Or the compiler for that matter! I
> much preferred FORTRAN or assembler on the 1100 (or Pascal when it became
> available).
Sure they did. The early compilers had some problems, 
but that's to be expected. Of course, FORTRAN was the 
annointed language on the 1100, and Univac put most of 
their resources into it. I've always had a passion for 
assembler, but most other programmers seem to turn up 
their noses at it. My two favorite machines in terms of 
machine language were the 1100 and the DEC system 10. 
Interestingly, they both had a word size of 36 bits. 

(We also had a compiler called RALPH on the 1110 
written at the University of Maryland which would compile 
code in FORTRAN and MAD. [Anyone remember MAD?]
You could switch back and forth between languages in the 
middle of a source file.)

--Ph. D. 

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