On Wednesday, 96/08/14, Jerry McBride wrote to David Noon about "PL/I
for OS/2" as follows:

JM>  DN> why I just _love_ the PL/I language. The only things I had to
JM>  DN> change were some machine-specific bit strings for the mainframe
JM>  DN> FPU; these are now hardware independent. Everything else would run
JM>  DN> unmodified. 
JM> 
JM> Very cool! 

Hi Jerry,

Yes, PL/I is still the second most portable language I know. The most
portable is COBOL, but nobody can justify that.

The main thing I would like to do with all this code is work it into
an OS/2 product.

JM>  DN> None of the code is less than 18 years old. The punched cards I 
JM>  DN> used for source are getting a little tatty though. ... :-)
JM> 
JM> Come on! Are you pulling my leg?? :')

Not a word of it! The cards have been in my garage since 1989. They
were originally punched in the 1970's, some as early as 1973.

Regards

Dave


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