Re: Compilers for systems programming (was: A C style compiler)

johnrn@ibm.net (john )
17 May 1998 00:16:32 -0400

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Re: Compilers for systems programming (was: A C style compiler) ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz (Dr Richard A. O'Keefe) (1998-05-07)
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From: johnrn@ibm.net (john )
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 17 May 1998 00:16:32 -0400
Organization: IBM.NET
References: 98-05-017 98-05-052 98-05-060
Keywords: history

"Dr Richard A. O'Keefe" ><ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
>>...IBM's "systems programming" dialect of PL/I (PL/S, wasn't it?)


dwight@pentasoft.com (Dwight VandenBerghe) wrote:
>...We all wanted PL/S desperately; they never released
>it, at least not by the end of my mainframe days, which was around
>1978. Supposedly it was highly optimizing.


Dwight:


PL/S is still going strong within IBM. I still believe that it has
never been released to customers.


It is called PL/X and there are versions of it for many platforms.


It is heavily used within IBM for system programming.


Over the years, the features that it provides has grown exponentially.


John
[PL/X? Gee, that was its original name back on the GE 635 where I
encountered it at Dartmouth. -John]




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