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@Article{Radin:1978:EHC,
  author =       "George Radin",
  title =        "The early history and characteristics of {PL/I}",
  journal =      j-SIGPLAN,
  volume =       "13",
  number =       "8",
  pages =        "227--241",
  month =        aug,
  year =         "1978",
  CODEN =        "SINODQ",
  DOI =          "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/960118.808389",
  ISSN =         "0362-1340",
  bibdate =      "Wed Jun 18 16:08:59 MDT 2008",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/",
  abstract =     "Source material for a written history of PL/I has been
                 preserved and is available in dozens of cartons, each
                 packed with memos, evaluations, language control logs,
                 etc. A remembered history of PL/I is retrievable by
                 listening to as many people, each of whom was deeply
                 involved in one aspect of its progress. This paper is
                 an attempt to gather together and evaluate what I and
                 some associates could read and recall in a few months.
                 There is enough material left for several
                 dissertations. The exercise is important, I think, not
                 only because of the importance of PL/I, but because of
                 the breadth of its subject matter. Since PL/I took as
                 its scope of applicability virtually all of
                 programming, the dialogues about its various parts
                 encompass a minor history of computer science in the
                 middle sixties. There are debates among numerical
                 analysts about arithmetic, among language experts about
                 syntax, name scope, block structure, etc., among
                 systems programmers about multi-tasking, exception
                 handling, I/O, and more.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  classification = "C6140D (High level languages)",
  conflocation = "Los Angeles, CA, USA; 1-3 June 1978",
  conftitle =    "ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages
                 Conference",
  corpsource =   "IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY,
                 USA",
  keywords =     "arithmetic; block structure; characteristics; computer
                 science; early history; exception handling; I/O;
                 multitasking; name scope; PL/1; programming; syntax",
  treatment =    "G General Review",
}

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