Niklaus Wirth, Joseph W. Wells Jr., Edwin Satterthwaite Jr.
Developer
Stanford University
First appeared
1966; 58 years ago (1966)
Typing discipline
Static, strong
Scope
Lexical (static)
Implementation language
ALGOL, then PL360
Platform
Burroughs B5000, IBM System/360
Influenced by
ALGOL, Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language (ESPOL)
Influenced
ALGOL W
PL360 (or PL/360) is a system programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth and written by Wirth, Joseph W. Wells Jr., and Edwin Satterthwaite Jr. for the IBM System/360 computer at Stanford University. A description of PL360 was published in early 1968, although the implementation was probably completed before Wirth left Stanford in 1967.[1]
^Wirth, Niklaus (January 1968). "PL360, a Programming Language for the 360 Computers". Journal of the ACM. 15 (1): 34–74. doi:10.1145/321439.321442. S2CID 7376057.
PL360 (or PL/360) is a system programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth and written by Wirth, Joseph W. Wells Jr., and Edwin Satterthwaite Jr. for...
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University that was widely distributed. The implementation was written in PL360, an ALGOL-like assembly language designed by Wirth. The implementation includes...
Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler (1965), PL360 (1966), ALGOL W (1966), Pascal (1970), Modula (1975), Modula-2 (1978), Oberon...
adding structured programming to the PDP-11 assembly language. LIL resembled PL360 with C-like flow control syntax. The LIL compiler "lc" was part of Fifth...
generalization of the simple precedence parser method invented by Niklaus Wirth for PL360. Simple precedence is itself a generalization of the trivially simple operator...
Symbol assembler, Metasymbol, a meta-assembler LP70, a language similar to PL360 COBOL Fortran IV extended BASIC Algol 60 PL/I Pascal Simula 67 SNOBOL Lisp—Several...
Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan Wirth, Niklaus (1968). "PL360, a Programming Language for the 360 Computers". Journal of the ACM. 15:...
mainframe systems, which also influenced a number of 1960s languages like PL360 and JOVIAL. Through the mid-1970s, the success of the HP systems produced...
needs of a large and diverse computing community. SPIRES was rewritten in PL360, a block structured programming language designed explicitly for System/360-compatible...
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