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NPL is designed to serve the needs of an unusually large group of programmers, including scientific, business, real time, and systems programmers.
The result was the PL.8 language, the ".8" implying that it had about 80 percent of the richness of PL/I.
Open PL/I estimated that in 1995 20% of mainframe legacy applications were in PL/I, with 60% in COBOL: there were 300,000 PL/I programmers worldwide
The result was the PL.8 language, the ".8" implying that it had about 80 percent of the richness of PL/I.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)Open PL/I estimated that in 1995 20% of mainframe legacy applications were in PL/I, with 60% in COBOL: there were 300,000 PL/I programmers worldwide