Re: PL/S programming language

If I recall correctly, PL/S was orignially known as BSL (Basic Systems
Language). I may actually have a document somewhere. I think it
was influenced by PL/360.

Jim Mehl

"Anne & Lynn Wheeler" <lynn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Many years ago, about 1974. I read a book on PL/S that was in the
>> University Library. If you have access to a University Library you
>> might try searching there. This PL/S was a PL/1 style of language. And
>> it was designed to write system software. As I remember the publisher
>> would also sell you a PL/S compiler written in PL/S. I don't know if
>> this is the same PL/S or not.
>
> old email mentioning some pl/s sup****t issues in conjunction with
> (original relational/sql) system/r implementation:
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email800920
>
> misc. past posts mentioning system/r
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr
>
> which mentions that the pls had been created in the late sixties but
> that the group had been disbanded in the early days of FS ... aka the
> "future system" project was going to be a totally new machine
> architecture ... as radically different from 360 as 360 had been
> different from earlier machines. past posts mentioning FS
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#futuresys




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