PL/I is a programming language developed by IBM in the 1960s with the aim of combining the strengths of languages used for scientific work, such as FORTRAN, business data processing, such as COBOL, and ideas from ALGOL. It was designed to run on the IBM System/360 family of computers and was meant to serve all kinds of programmers, which gave it a very large set of features. This also made it complicated and difficult to implement. It introduced ideas such as exception handling and some features of concurrent programming. PL/I was used for many commercial systems, and it was the language in which the Multics operating system was written. Its use declined over time, but it is still used on mainframes.
Before and after
- 1964Non ho l'età
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- from 1964 to 2016Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
- 1964Founding of UN Trade and Development
- 1964Creation of PL/I
- 1964Creation of BASIC
- 1964Publication of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- 1964Rise of minimalist music
- 1964Founding of Tartu Observatory
More in Science & technology
- 1945Invention of computer
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
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