Re: Please welcome . . .

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:02:01AM -0500, Ph. D. wrote:
> 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!
This from the person who brought up PL/I? :)

> 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.
Yeah, from what I saw it was pretty low-level in capability despite the
high-level syntax.  I/O is accomplished by directly calling the CP/M
routines in memory, for instance; no equivalent of PRINT LIST(...) etc.

Thanks again.

-Mark


> --Ph. D.