Long considered strictly a mainframe language, PL/I is now the focus of renewed interest, particularly in view of its acknowledged security advantages over C. New compilers are available or under development on a range of platforms, and software is being ported to PL/I.
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Description of PL/I |
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PL/I Compilers and Tools |
PL/I Bibliography of books and articles |
The PL/I Language Family |
PL/I Virtual Reference Library (Index of manuals) |
PL/I Virtual Source Archive |
Numerical Algorithms in PL/I, from Robin Vowels.
Robin has given permission for Team PL/I to host his extensive collections
of algorithms.
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PL/I Bulletins, 1966-1969. |
UK GUIDE PL/I library (zip file).
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Hugh Gleaves has released the source for his Subset-G compiler for Windows-NT and above. |
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IBM offers downloads, sample code, and PL/I manuals in Adobe PDF format. |
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The PL1GCC project at SourceForge is developing a PL/I front-end for the open-source Gnu Compiler Collection (gcc). |
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CBTTAPE.ORG maintains the SHARE PL/I modifications library. |
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Rosetta Code PL/I over 400 examples of various PL/I solutions for various tasks. |
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The VM Workshop maintains a tools archive with some PL/I-related material. |
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Detailed comparison of PL/I and C by Eberhard Sturm. |
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"Teaching the Fatal Disease (or) Introductory Computer Programming Using PL/I" by Richard C. Holt |
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Multicians.org presents information on the history and features of the PL/I compilers used to build the Multics Operating System. |
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MIT Information on the Multics operating system including full source in PL/I. |
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