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"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7628B97C-0097-4505-9BAF-902F7A09F121@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We used to say that PL/1 was for people who couldn't decide whether they wanted to use Fortran or COBOL.

When I was a first year undergraduate, those of us doing the "numerical maths" course did FORTRAN; those doing "computing" learned PL/I. People are still writing FORTRAN (yes really!) but I hadn'ty heard of PL/I in years! :-)

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