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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.
 
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* 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

Description

George Radin
1931-01-22 to 2013-05-21 - One of the principal developers of PL/I at IBM

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

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

Publications

Local articles

Tutorials and other learning material

Tips'n'Tricks

Links

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

Standards

  • ANSI INCITS 74-1987 (R1998) - A PL/I Subset for generic programming (Subset G)


PL/I history