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On Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:09:03 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> 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.