From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden@speakeasy.net>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Invoking a function from a list of functions
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 09:15:08 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e190e4f-95c0-44f6-9e8d-d664b73049d1@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181116114011.cd51e04341e98a6b76ef10d2@speakeasy.net>
> > The PL/I project by IBM and SHARE resulted in
> > Fortran and COBOL
>
> PL/1 post-dates Cobol by at least 7 years. By the time PL/1 was
> available, Cobol was already commercially successful. What use did the
> Cobol programmer have for PL/1? And what evidence that it's a simpler
> language?
And Fortran certainly came years before "the PL/I project".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I#Early_history
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2018-11-12 5:39 ` Invoking a function from a list of functions Rusi
2018-11-12 15:19 ` [OFFTOPIC] " Stefan Monnier
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2018-11-16 2:48 ` Rusi
2018-11-16 16:40 ` James K. Lowden
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2018-11-19 22:23 ` James K. Lowden
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2018-11-20 6:15 ` Amin Bandali
2018-11-21 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
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2018-11-28 14:14 ` Rusi
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2018-11-28 14:10 ` Rusi
2018-11-28 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-11-29 5:37 ` Rusi
2018-11-16 16:40 ` James K. Lowden
2018-11-16 17:15 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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