Date   : Fri, 07 Jun 1991 15:27:25 GMT
From   : cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!grissom.larc.nasa.gov!kludge@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU ( Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: PL/I compiler

In article <1991Jun7.120942.3626@world.std.com> jamesp@world.std.com (james
M peterson) writes:
>As I remember the digital research pl/1 compiler was not real compatable
>with our vax pl/1 stuff - as in major recoding.

   The DR PL/I was a PL/I subset G compiler, whereas the VMS PL/I is a full
implementation.  PL/I was the Ada of the 1960's; enormous with every programmer
using a different subset.
   The DR compiler was still being sold as late as 1983.  I have a manual for
it somewhere, though I don't have the software.
--scott