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		GnarfGnarf on July 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PL/I as a Tool for System Programming (1969) I wrote a Battleship game in PL/I on a Univac 1100 ca. 1978. It was a pretty cool language, but those /* comments */ felt weird after FORTRAN and COBOL.

rootbear on July 18, 2019 [–]

I used PL/UM, a PL/I variant at the University of Maryland at about the same time. Also on a Univac 1100, specifically an 1108 and/or 1106. Where you there, too?

GnarfGnarf on July 19, 2019 | | [–]

I was at Petro-Canada in Calgary, Alberta. I displayed the Battleship arrays on HP character-based CRTs.

dbcurtis on July 18, 2019 | | [–]

SSG rocks! Unix needs a modern equivalent.

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