Re: Please welcome . . .

Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> While we're off the topic - what's the relationship of PL/I to PL/M,
> the language in which the non-assembly parts of CP/M were written?
> Was it a subset of the subset, tailored for micros?
CP/M??!!  That's ancient history!

I vaguely recall seeing a couple of routines written in
PL/M years ago, probably in Byte magazine, but I can't
say that I really knew that language. My impression was
that it had the same general syntax as PL/I (e.g. "declare"
to define variables), but stripped down and with a lot of
new keywords applicable to microcomputers, so it was
not specifically a subset of PL/I. The name stood for
Programming Language for Microcomputers.

--Ph. D.

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