16 Feb
2025
16 Feb
'25
4:41 p.m.
On Sun, 2025-02-16 at 21:51 +0000, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 2/16/25 11:54, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
I guess Honeywell got enough PL/1 working to write most of Multics in
it.
Has anybody gotten Multics going on a PC?
On Sun, 2025-02-16 at 09:32 -0500, Paul Koning
via cctalk wrote:
A co-worker from long ago who was part of the IBM COMTRAN project
once
told me that the IBM PL/I group was the biggest bunch of misfits that
had ever been assembled. I won't go any further on that, because I'd
be
engaging in gossip.
A lot of early "ALGOL" compilers did
major subsetting because it
was
considered to hard to do the real language.
IBM invented PL/1. IBM (or at least IBM Canada) wrote their
excellent
Fortran compilers in a subset of PL/1 called PLIX, that is PL.9. I
guess a full language was too hard even for the inventors of the
language. At committee meetings I would pester the IBM delegate
"When
are you going to make your compiler available for Linux on Intel?"
His
answer was always NEVER!