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		morelisp on Aug 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Frances Allen has died While I suppose it's possible someone was writing PL/I quite recently, the more probable option is that this story is from the late 60s.

kjs3 on Aug 7, 2020 [–]

At least as of when I was at IBM several years ago, PL/I and derived languages are still in widespread use in the IBM ecosystem for both high-level and low-level coding.

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