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On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:59:25 -0700 (PDT), "Dan'l Miller"
<optikos@verizon.net> declaimed the following:


>Well, there was PL/I from which Ada got the idea of meticulous control of the layout of records.  Ichbiah's Green was competing in a 1970s ecosystem that had a background commentary of “why not just pick PL/I”.  Multics had picked PL/I.  Prime Computer had picked PL/I, refashioned as PL/P.  Intel and Digital Research had picked
PL/I, refashioned as PL/M.

	Yet all four finalists, as I recall, chose Pascal as the starting point
for language design.


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