From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/26/2024 10:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:15:15 -0600, Gary Scott wrote:   
   >   
   >> Harris VOS Fortran (~1980) had a lot of extensions beyond F77 that   
   >> eventually went into F90 (long procedure/variable names (63 chars), free   
   >> form source, full complement of end statements, async IO (although a   
   >> different form), "Purdue" bit intrinsics (1753), and many others).  They   
   >> were way ahead of the standard, but there's always risk in adding   
   >> extensions.  These were however essential to make the systems usable for   
   >> real-time programming (in addition to program priority control, process   
   >> initiation/termination, hardware interrupt handling/processing, shared   
   >> memory access and control, etc.)   
   >   
   > Strange, isn’t it. PL/I was supposed to be the language with all of that--   
   > I gather it was even going to be called “FORTRAN VI” at one point.   
   >   
   > That never caught on much (outside of IBM). Yet Fortran has ended up   
   > reinventing a lot of it.   
      
   Prime computer used PL/1 to rewrite the Primos Operating System in from   
   Fortran (66, I think).   
      
   Lynn   
      
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