PL/I

PL/I (Programming Language One) was IBM's attempt to unite Fortran's scientific computing and COBOL's business processing in a single language. Powerful and huge, it lives on in some corporate mainframes.

• Creado por IBM
• Año 1964
• Paradigma: Imperative · compiled
• Extensiones: .pli, .pl1

Para qué se usa

• Enterprise mainframes
• Science and business
• Legacy systems

A favor

• Very complete
• Science and business together
• Robust on mainframe

En contra

• Huge and complex
• Dated
• Corporate niche

Ecosistema

• IBM Enterprise PL/I
• z/OS
• Eclipse

Ejemplo

HELLO: PROCEDURE OPTIONS(MAIN);
  PUT LIST('¡Hola, mundo!');
END HELLO;