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From: CG on 9 Jan 2008 16:58
On 01/08/08 02:10 am, tim Josling wrote:
><snip>
> Looking at the 2002 tome I thought the next step would be to rename the
> language PL/II. Like PL/I it seemed to incorporate every feature known to
> man at the time (except macros of course). Nowadays one would say every
> feature known to man and woman I suppose.
><snip>

PL/II Probably would not have worked either... After all, IBM tried to
get people to refer to:
VS COBOL II
and all that did was generate references to:
COBOL2 [meaningless of course]
and because they used COBOL2, that meant that:
OS/VS COBOL
must really be:
COBOL1 [also meaningless and nonexistent.]
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