David Noon wrote in a message to Harry Bush:

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 DN> Incidentally, I've just spent the last 2 days resurrecting some of
 DN> my mainframe code from the 1970's to run under OS/2. It reminded me
 DN> why I just _love_ the PL/I language. The only things I had to
 DN> change were some machine-specific bit strings for the mainframe
 DN> FPU; these are now hardware independent. Everything else would run
 DN> unmodified. 

Very cool! 

 DN> None of the code is less than 18 years old. The punched cards I 
 DN> used for source are getting a little tatty though. ... :-)

Come on! Are you pulling my leg?? :')

Cheers!
        Jerry


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