XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:09:03 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
      
   > rbowman  writes:   
   >>On Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:57:26 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I hated Wirthian languages from the start and still do. Just bad   
   >>> chemistry, I guess.  But I couldn't stand having some snooty compiler   
   >>> slap my wrist and tell me that I couldn't do what I could do in a   
   >>> couple of lines of assembly language.   
   >>   
   >>Ever run into PL/M?   
   >   
   > I have a listing of the PL/M 8080 cross-compiler somewhere in storage.   
      
   iirc the Mostek AID-80F development system had a native PL/M   
   implementation. It was almost, but not quite, CP/M.   
      
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