New Python implementation

[Dan Stromberg]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 9:37 PM dn via Python-list <python-list at python.org>
wrote:

> On 16/02/2021 17.57, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 8:52 PM Igor Korot <ikorot01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, guys,
> >> Let me try to throw in another one - PL/1.
> >> This guys used to be very popular with the accounting community...
> >>
> >
> > Actually PL/I is basically proprietary Pascal - from IBM.  My Intro Comp
> > Sci classes at the University of Cincinnati were in PL/I, because IBM had
> > an office not far from the University, and they liked to hire interns
> from
> > UCinci.  I was told that otherwise the classes would've been in Pascal.
>
>
> Might a coincidence of location have been conflated with language
> development?
>
Nah.  All 3 are in the Algol family: Algol, Pascal, PL/I.

I'll grant you that PL/I is a "big language" though.  It didn't rely on
external libraries as much as it should have.