XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 09/01/2026 16:02, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   > The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   >> On 09/01/2026 02:02, rbowman wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >> PL/M was a language. CP/M was almost an operating system   
   >   
   > So?  Mr. Bowman's comment referred to the AID-80F development system.   
      
   Did it? It was ambiguous.   
      
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