“The PL/I Bulletin is intended to be an informal publication for the interchange of information and opinions related to PL/I. Correspondence and other contributions from the general readership are solicited. The frequency of publication has been and will continue to be adjusted to the rate of input.” |
The PL/I Bulletin was originally produced by Working Group 4 (WG4) of the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Issue number one appeared in January, 1966 and was mailed to a list of 84 recipients. The editor was R.N. Southworth of Logicon, Inc. in Los Angeles.
| PL/I Bulletin No. 1, January, 1966. | |||||
| PB1.0 | Editor's Notes | 1 | |||
| PB1.1 | News Items | 3 | |||
| PB1.2 | Correspondence | (D.E. Knuth, M. Halpern,P.Z. Ingerman, J.W. Carr, A. d'Agapeyeff, H. Bromberg) | 5 | ||
| PB1.3 | Working Papers | ||||
| PB1.3.1 | • Schneider, F. W. | PL/I Publication Guidelines | 20 | ||
| PB1.4 | Programs | ||||
| PB1.4.1 | • Knuth, D.E., and Schneider, F. W. | An Innerproduct Procedure | 23 | ||
| PB1.5 | Pitfalls & Pragmatisms | ||||
| PB1.5.1 | • Schneider, F. | Array Arithmetic | 25 | ||
| PB1.5.2 | • Rosenthal, W. | Fixed Point Arithmetic | 26 | ||
| PB1.5.3 | • Rosenthal, W. | Hint on PICTURE Clauses | 27 | ||
| PB1.8 | References | 28 | |||
| PB1.9 | Circulation List | 29 | |||
| PL/I Bulletin No. 2, August, 1966. | |||||
| PB2.0 | Editor's Notes | 1 | |||
| PB2.1 | News Items | 2 | |||
| PB2.2 | Correspondence | (P. Yershov, T.B. Steel, jr., Prof. Dr. Leon Lukaszewicz, W.M. McKeeman, Bryan Higman, R.A. Zemlin) | 6 | ||
| PB2.3 | Working Papers | ||||
| PB2.3.1 | • Higman, Bryan | Some Reactions to PL/I | 10 | ||
| PB2.3.2 | • Greenwald, I.D. | Some Selected Published Comments on PL/I | 12 | ||
| PB2.3.3 | • Rosin, Robert F. | PL/I Macro Processor - Progress Report | 14 | ||
| PB2.3.4 | • Rosin, Robert F. | Macros in PL/I | 16 | ||
| PB2.3.5 | • Holmes, W.N. | Some Remarks on PL/I | 22 | ||
| PB2.8 | References | 24 | |||
| PB2.9 | Circulation List | 25 | |||
| PL/I Bulletin No. 3, March, 1967. | |||||
| PB3.0 | Editor's Notes | 1 | |||
| PB3.2 | Correspondence | (W. Schöniger, M.S. Schneider) | 2 | ||
| PB3.3 | Working Papers | ||||
| PB3.3.1 | • Schneider, M.S. | A PL/I Reformatter | 5 | ||
| PB3.3.2 | • Chapman, A.E. | A User's Experience with PL/I | 7 | ||
| PB3.4 | Programs | ||||
| PB3.4.1 | • Schneider, F. W. | A Permutation Algorithm | 18 | ||
| PB3.8 | References | 19 | |||
| PL/I Bulletin No. 4, September, 1967. | |||||
| PB4.0 | Editor's Notes | 1 | |||
| PB4.2 | Correspondence | (J. Besse, R.F. Rosin, M.W. Schneider, G.M. Weinberg, F. Bates) | 2 | ||
| PB4.3 | Working Papers | ||||
| PB4.3.1 | • Rosin, R.F. | Strings in PL/I | 6 | ||
| PB4.3.2 | • Fife, D.W. | Viewpoints on Subsetting PL/I | 13 | ||
| PB4.3.3 | • Fay, D.E. | GUIDE PL/I Project Minutes | 31 | ||
| PB4.3.4 | • Eddy, P.L. | PLINT: PL/I Interpreter | 36 | ||
| PB4.5 | Pitfalls & Pragmatisms | ||||
| PB4.5.1 | • Fay, D.E. | Pictures | 37 | ||
| PL/I Bulletin No. 5, December, 1967. | |||||
| PB5.0 | Editor's Notes | 1 | |||
| PB5.2 | Correspondence | (J.L. Harris & T.C. Hines) | 2 | ||
| PB5.3 | Working Papers | ||||
| PB5.3.1 | • Holmes, W.N. | Proposal for PL/I Pseudo-Name | 3 | ||
| PB5.3.2 | • Holmes, W.N. | Study Proposal for PL/I String Facilities | 7 | ||
| PB5.3.3 | • Rosin, R.F. | Comments on an Alternative Proposal for Strings in PL/I | 12 | ||
| PB5.3.4 | • Rosin, R.F. | Proceedings of the PL/I Forum | 15 | ||
| PB5.3.5 | • Gauthier, R.L. | PL/I Versus COBOL and FORTRAN | 31 | ||
| PB5.3.6 | • Gauthier, R.L. | PL/I Survey | 34 | ||
| PB5.3.7 | • Kirk, P.J. | "Pictures" and Subroutine Access | 40 | ||
| PB5.3.8 | • McKeeman, W.M., et.al.. | Interim Report on the Stanford PL/I Compiler Generation Project | 42 | ||
| PB5.3.9 | • Shantz, P.W., and Cheng, R.S. | Some Remarks on the PL/I Language Specifications | 52 | ||
| PB5.4 | Programs | ||||
| PB5.4.1 | • Schneider, M.S. | REFMT, a Reformatting Program | 55 | ||
| PB5.5 | Pitfalls & Pragmatisms | ||||
| PB5.5.1 | • Miller, J.P. | Variable Length Records | 69 | ||
| PL/I Bulletin No. 6, (missing). | |||||
| Bulletin number 6 was perhaps distributed with SIGPLAN Notices volume three issue three (Mar 1968) which is missing from the ACM archives. | |||||
| PL/I Bulletin No. 7, January, 1969. | |||||
| PB7.0 | Editor's Notes | 1 | |||
| PB7.2 | Correspondence | ||||
| PB7.2.1 | • Ackerman, A.F. | Compile-Time Processor Deficiencies | 3 | ||
| PB7.3 | Working Papers | ||||
| PB7.3.1 | • Wood, D. | On Conditional Expressions | 4 | ||
| PB7.3.2 | • Rosin, R.F. | PL/I Implementation Survey | 8 | ||
| PB7.3.3 | • Basford, R.L. | PL/I Data Conversion Rules | 16 | ||
| PB7.3.4 | • MacLachlan, J. | Calling of FORTRAN Subprograms from a PL/I Procedure | 19 | ||
| PB7.3.5 | • Rosin, R.F. | Summary Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM SIGPLAN PL/I Forum | 20 | ||
| PB7.4 | Programs | ||||
| PB7.4.1 | • Ackerman, A.F. | Macros for Debugging | 28 | ||
| PB7.5 | Pitfalls & Pragmatisms | ||||
| PB7.5.1 | • Karpinski, R.H. | Problems? and Solutions? | 30 | ||
| PB7.8 | References | 33 | |||
| Credits | Bulletins 1-3 | Charles Babbage Institute. |
| Bulletins 4-7 | ACM |