http://teampli.net/plifamily.html
http://teampli.net/plifamily.html
On 8/4/22 7:37 PM, Robin Vowels wrote:
http://teampli.net/plifamily.html
BRUIN /was/ distributed with CMS, but it’s far more similar to BASIC
than to PL/I. https://usermanual.wiki/m/8f03e3390fa44cee401a987c285272e33c4c8c38355ea6e470fdbbf5d093ce9b.pdf
The idea that BRUIN is a PL/I-like language seems to be a
misinterpretation of the early statement that it was hoped that the combination of BRUIN and PL/I would cover most university needs apart
from actual computer science.
FAPL (Format and Protocol Language) was a language based on PL/I that
was originally used for more precisely documenting SNA (IBM’s Systems Network Architecure). However, when the DPPX operating system (for small 8100-series computers, later ported to small 370s) came out, a compiler
was built for FAPL to create the DPPX SNA stack.
Late in the 1960s, OS/360 and DOS/360 and their descendants changed from Assembler to PL/I as a gross syntactic model for option strings and
command languages. Compare the PARM= strings of the F-Compiler to the Optimizing Compiler, IEHPROGM to IDCAMS, or JCL to TSO commands, all
with a systematic change from optionname=value to optionname(value).
Interesting, thanks John. I guess I need to update the page.
The idea that BRUIN is a PL/I-like language seems to be a
misinterpretation of the early statement that it was hoped that the combination of BRUIN and PL/I would cover most university needs apart
from actual computer science.
On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 5:53:04 PM UTC-4, John W. Kennedy wrote:
The idea that BRUIN is a PL/I-like language seems to be a
misinterpretation of the early statement that it was hoped that the
combination of BRUIN and PL/I would cover most university needs apart
from actual computer science.
Or perhaps from a misreading of the statement in the BRUIN manual that
BRUIN was derived from PIL (Pittsburgh Interactive Language). It actually looks
--
IF IF = THEN THEN THEN = ELSE ELSE ELSE = IF;
Or perhaps from a misreading of the statement in the BRUIN manual that BRUIN was derived from PIL (Pittsburgh Interactive Language). It actually looks(posting unfinished?)
On 9/5/22 4:22 PM, John Cowan wrote:
On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 5:53:04 PM UTC-4, John W. Kennedy wrote:
The idea that BRUIN is a PL/I-like language seems to be a
misinterpretation of the early statement that it was hoped that the
combination of BRUIN and PL/I would cover most university needs apart
from actual computer science.
Or perhaps from a misreading of the statement in the BRUIN manual that
BRUIN was derived from PIL (Pittsburgh Interactive Language). It actually >> looks
(posting unfinished?)
That seems credible. I can’t find anything definite on PIL, but it was apparently based on JOSS, and a quick look at JOSS shows that BRUIN is a
near relation.
--
IF IF = THEN THEN THEN = ELSE ELSE ELSE = IF;
I guess I’ll just delete BRUIN from the list. I couldn’t find much information on BRUIN, but I thought it sounded like it was an interactive subset of PL/I, like CPL (IBM’s or DEC’s). A lot of the old stuff is just.
gone now, leaving nothing but a trace in the literature.
On Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 5:33:56 AM UTC+10, bearlyabus...@gmail.com wrote:
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I guess I’ll just delete BRUIN from the list. I couldn’t find much.
information on BRUIN, but I thought it sounded like it was an interactive
subset of PL/I, like CPL (IBM’s or DEC’s). A lot of the old stuff is just
gone now, leaving nothing but a trace in the literature.
Perhaps you could you add Optimising PL/I for CDC Cyber and Cyber 76?
Robin Vowels <robin....@gmail.com> wrote:.
On Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 5:33:56 AM UTC+10, bearlyabus...@gmail.com wrote:
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I guess I’ll just delete BRUIN from the list. I couldn’t find much.
information on BRUIN, but I thought it sounded like it was an interactive >> subset of PL/I, like CPL (IBM’s or DEC’s). A lot of the old stuff is just
gone now, leaving nothing but a trace in the literature.
Perhaps you could you add Optimising PL/I for CDC Cyber and Cyber 76?
That page is supposed to be languages based on or resembling PL/I, not actual PL/I compilers. Is there any documentation on CDC PL/I?
On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 12:35:29 AM UTC+10, bearlyabus...@gmail.com wrote:.
Interesting, thanks John. I guess I need to update the page.
The Q1/Lite micro had a subset of PL/I..
On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 12:35:29 AM UTC+10, bearlyabus...@gmail.com wrote:.
The Q1/Lite micro had a subset of PL/I.
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