Long considered strictly a mainframe language, PL/I is now the focus of renewed interest, particularly in view of its acknowledged security advantages over C. New compilers are available or under development on a range of platforms, and software is being ported to PL/I.
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Hugh Gleaves has released the source for his Subset-G compiler for Windows-NT and above. | |
IBM offers downloads, sample code, and PL/I manuals in Adobe PDF format. | |
The PL1GCC project at SourceForge is developing a PL/I front-end for the open-source Gnu Compiler Collection (gcc). | |
CBTTAPE.ORG maintains the SHARE PL/I modifications library. | |
Rosetta Code PL/I over 400 examples of various PL/I solutions for various tasks. | |
The VM Workshop maintains a tools archive with some PL/I-related material. | |
UK GUIDE PL/I library.
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Detailed comparison of PL/I and C by Eberhard Sturm. | |
"Teaching the Fatal Disease (or) Introductory Computer Programming Using PL/I" by Richard C. Holt | |
Multicians.org presents information on the history and features of the PL/I compilers used to build the Multics Operating System. | |
MIT Information on the Multics operating system including full source in PL/I. | |
PL/I Bulletins, 1966-1969. | |
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Cited in "Surfing the Net for software engineering notes", ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 29(2) March, 2004, 17-26.
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