From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: PL/1 vs PL/I (Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?)
Date: 18 Dec 1994 08:47:03 -0500
Date: 1994-12-18T08:47:03-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d1egn$n3m@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1994Dec8.175139.18849@nosc.mil
I think it is wrong to say that PL/I was called this because of lack of
confidence. In fact it was more like the "one" in
A-1 Autobody Repair Inc.
i.e. the "we're number one" of programming languages
the original title in all the papers was NPL (new programming language).
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1994-12-06 18:00 Why don't large companies use Ada? Bob Wells #402
1994-12-08 17:51 ` PL/1 vs PL/I (Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?) Michael D Shapiro
1994-12-18 13:47 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1994-12-19 20:19 ` Norman H. Cohen
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