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From: hal@cornell.UUCP (Hal Perkins)
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Subject: Re: PL/2, PL/3, PL/4, PL/5, PL/6, PL/7, PL/8, PL/9, PL/10, PL/11,
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Date: Wed, 14-Mar-84 23:04:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 14 23:04:21 1984
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The way I heard it, when IBM introduced PL/1 (or do you say PL/I?), they
registered PL/2 through PL/99 using both arabic AND roman numerals (PL/II
to PL/XCIX).  I don't know what the real story is, I'm afraid, and I
wouldn't have any idea if the registration is still valid.


Hal Perkins                         UUCP: {decvax|vax135|...}!cornell!hal
Cornell Computer Science            ARPA: hal@cornell  BITNET: hal@crnlcs