[rescue] Interesting bit on Multics

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 18 00:49:25 CDT 2003


--- Eric Dittman <dittman at dittman.net> wrote:
> > It was very tied to PL/1 which was a horrible language by any
> > account,
> 
> There's a lot of code written in PL/I, esp. at three-letter-agencies.

And Telco (which is not neccessarily a three-letter agency ;^) - a lot
of mainframe telco software was written in PL/I using IMS DC and DB...


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Lionel

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