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PL/I

Procedural Language

PL/I (Programming Language One) is a procedural, imperative computer programming language designed for scientific, engineering, business and system programming, developed by IBM in the 1960s in an effort to create a single language suitable for both scientific and commercial applications, combining features of Fortran and COBOL. PL/I supports recursion, structured programming, linked data structure handling, fixed-point, floating-point, complex, and character-string data types, and extensive built-in functions.

Facts
First Released
1964 1
Paradigm
Procedural, imperative, structured 2
Significance
PL/I has been in continuous use by academic, commercial and industrial organizations since its introduction in the 1960s 2
Classification
Typing Discipline
Strongly Typed 1
Connections

Influenced

Source Wikidata: PL/M

Influenced By

Source Wikidata: PL/I
Source Wikidata: PL/I
Source Wikidata: PL/I
Sources
1. Wikidata: PL/I
  • Wikidata Q223433, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q223433 P571 (inception)
  • Wikidata Q223433 P7078 (typing discipline)
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2. PL/I, Wikipedia
  • Infobox, First appeared
    1964; 62 years ago (1964)
  • Lead section
    is a procedural, imperative computer programming language
  • Early history section
    It has been in continuous use by academic, commercial and industrial organizations since it was introduced in the 1960s.
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Wikidata: PL/M
Influenced: PL/MView the Source
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