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0 pointsmorelisp5y ago0 comments

While I suppose it's possible someone was writing PL/I quite recently, the more probable option is that this story is from the late 60s.

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kjs35y ago

At least as of when I was at IBM several years ago, PL/I and derived languages are still in widespread use in the IBM ecosystem for both high-level and low-level coding.

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0 pointsmorelisp5y ago0 comments

While I suppose it's possible someone was writing PL/I quite recently, the more probable option is that this story is from the late 60s.

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kjs35y ago

At least as of when I was at IBM several years ago, PL/I and derived languages are still in widespread use in the IBM ecosystem for both high-level and low-level coding.

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