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fortran77 on July 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: PL/I as a Tool for System Programming (1969)

PL/I (and PL/C) was my first high-level language when I studied Computer Science in the late 70s.

CS 101 at my college was "IBM 370 Assembly Language". Then we moved on to PL/I.

And it was on punch cards.

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