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Having programmed in both, the most similarity is in the name. PL/I is a vastly complicated language that needs a specialized grammar to describe and PL/M works
by wglb 4y ago
Having programmed in both, the most similarity is in the name. PL/I is a vastly complicated language that needs a specialized grammar to describe and PL/M works on microprocessors. Oh, and another flaw with the article is that PL/M was not invented by Gary Kildall, not Intel.
- denton-scratch 4y agoWell, I said that Intel produced a compiler. I see from Wikipedia that Kildall did indeed develop PL/M; the same article says that Intel "promoted" it. The compiler that we used was branded Intel. It sounds like Kildall developed it for Intel. [Edit] My notion that PL/M was a cut-down version of PL/I was clearly wrong; I never used PL/I, the closest I got was reviewing a few documentation pages.