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* [https://code.google.com/p/legstar-pli2cob/ PL/I to Cobol] - Open source software that converts PL/I structures to COBOL structures, but not whole programs so far. | * [https://code.google.com/p/legstar-pli2cob/ PL/I to Cobol] - Open source software that converts PL/I structures to COBOL structures, but not whole programs so far. | ||
==Publications== | ==Publications== | ||
+ | * Paul Abrahams: [https://archive.org/details/pliprogrammingla00abra The PL/I programming language] - 1978 - A book in the [[public domain]]. | ||
* [http://www.iron-spring.com/PLI_Bulletins/Bulletin.html Archives of old PL/I Bulletins newsletters] - Hosted by [[Iron Spring Software]] | * [http://www.iron-spring.com/PLI_Bulletins/Bulletin.html Archives of old PL/I Bulletins newsletters] - Hosted by [[Iron Spring Software]] | ||
Revision as of 10:33, 9 January 2015
Contents
- 1 Description
- 2 A list of OS/2 implementations of PL/I
- 3 A list of DOS implementations of PL/I
- 4 A list of PL/I implementations that run under WinOS/2
- 5 A list of PL/I implementations that run under Java
- 6 A list of PL/I implementations in JavaScript
- 7 Generic or cross platform source code
- 8 Publications
- 9 Links
- 10 Standards
- 11 PL/I history
Description
Sometimes incorrectly known as PL/1, while the language is indeed named Programming Language One, the one was always meant to be expressed as a Roman numerical rather than an Arabian one, as is the tradition with computer languages even today. The Arabic 1 is only used on vintage computer and communications systems like USENET where the lower case only system or display limitation means that there is not Roman I available.
There are some variants of the language that are by now completely forgotten such as the safe variant SPL/I, that was designed at the behest of the USA department of defence in the early 1970's and was intended to be the language used for all non-business type programming done for the DoD but it end they gave up due to the variability of implementations and
PL/M
A language introduced in 1972 by Gary Kidall to allow development of computer programs for 4 and 8 bit microcomputers, full name being Programming Language for Microcomputers. Initially a very minimalistic version of PL/I that lacked even a standard I/O but later versions added features from sundry languages, which makes the latter PL/M versions somwhat unlike PL/I in many respects. Kidall sold the rights to his compiler to Intel who sold a version of the language for about 30 years mainly targeting the embedded market, but in addition he used the language to develop the CP/M operating system and used it as the main development language of Digital Research until the mid 80's. Digital released a PL/I compiler at the end of the decade for CP/M that implemented a properly defined subset of the language and that toolkit was later ported to DOS
A list of OS/2 implementations of PL/I
- IBM PL/I for OS/2 - Commercial - Discontinued
- IBM VisualAge PL/I Enterprise - Commercial - Discontinued
- Iron Spring PL/I - Freeware - Current
- PL1GCC - An incomplete front end for GCC - Open source - Discontinued.
OS/2 Libraries and class libraries
GUI and application generators with PL/I output
Translators that generate PL/I output
Workframes and or IDE's
Editors with PL/I support
A list of DOS implementations of PL/I
- DR PL/I - The old Digital Research, available for DOS and CP/M - Discontinued - Commercial - Now freeware.
DOS Libraries and class libraries
- DR PL/I Libraries - The old Digital Research libraries for the above compiler, disassembled - Discontinued - Commercial - Now freeware.
A list of PL/I implementations that run under WinOS/2
A list of PL/I implementations that run under Java
A list of PL/I implementations in JavaScript
Generic or cross platform source code
- PL/I grammar for Coctail - By CoCoLab
- PL/I to Cobol - Open source software that converts PL/I structures to COBOL structures, but not whole programs so far.
Publications
- Paul Abrahams: The PL/I programming language - 1978 - A book in the public domain.
- Archives of old PL/I Bulletins newsletters - Hosted by Iron Spring Software
Local articles
Tutorials and other learning material
- Software Engineers Handbook/Language Dictionary/PLI - From Wikibooks, more of a command listing than anything else and not complete.
Tips'n'Tricks
- Ask Felgall - Sundry small tips for beginners.
Links
- PL/I resources page - Sundry PL/I related stuff including old newsletter archives.
Mailing lists & forums
- PL/I Developers - On Yahoo groups - very low volume list intended for people that are developing PL/I tools, not for general PL/I programming discussion.
USENET
- comp.lang.pl1 - Fairly low volume - Go to the Google groups version if you or your ISP are in any way newsgroup challenged.
Standards
- ANSI INCITS 74-1987 (R1998) - A PL/I Subset for generic programming (Subset G)