PL/I (was write only memory)

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From: m... M.R.Murphy
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 20:26

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In article <1990Jan16.0...@world.std.com> b...@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
[stuff about PL/I]
>
>Everything was in there, but it was hardly a strength. Oh, and a macro
>pre-processor about as powerful as the rest of the language, had
>almost every control structure and variable type of the main language.
>-- 

And it ran in a 26K byte partition on an IBM Series/1 under RPS.

Did overlay a bit, though :-)

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Mike Murphy  Sceard Systems, Inc.  544 South Pacific St. San Marcos, CA  92069
m...@Sceard.COM        {hp-sdd,nosc,ucsd,uunet}!sceard!mrm      +1 619 471 0655

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