Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: The "Standards" Game Date: 1 Dec 2025 19:53:48 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <6jefmlxb6j.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10884l7$173em$1@dont-email.me> <1089ge2$1fvl9$8@dont-email.me> <10g52v4$3o78s$4@dont-email.me> <10g7bqf$j278$2@dont-email.me> <10gd4jq$2ptu7$4@dont-email.me> <10gejtd$39ian$2@dont-email.me> <10gh6dq$83hq$6@dont-email.me> <10gi75s$l23v$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net AlocBzUGnKB7QFtaLjJHbQ/wqpgGgNB/BcSyq35h41fTlUYGNH Cancel-Lock: sha1:+y/3EpNvN5jILzpqNuRaum0Wzoc= sha256:MaKobREO3a9RFMYvRxLtbBY8DD+Mio3y8BxuOw3apsw= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78157 alt.comp.os.windows-11:27797 On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:50:20 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 30/11/2025 18:59, rbowman wrote: >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:31:22 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> On 30/11/2025 02:47, c186282 wrote: >>>> Now imagine if some World Committee had decided >>>>   and enforced *a* programming lang in 1954, *a* >>>>   data-exchange format, *a* connection buss !!! >>> >>> God help us. >> >> I never did figure out how to use A Programming Language (APL). Then >> there was Programming Language One. Nobody ever accused IBM of >> humility. > > Well there was APL and PL/1 and Algol., BCPL, B and then C. > > A continuously developed stream. > > Ideas that worked, stayed. Needed bits were added. really shit ideas > were removed. My point was PL/I was designed to be the one language to rule them all, replacing FORTRAN and COBOL with a multipurpose language that would be all anyone could want. The ECMA was involved with the usual committee cluster fucks. Meanwhile C was being brewed up by a couple of guys. I think PL/I is still extant although I haven't looked at it since the early '70s.