@martyh turns out, it's not entirely unlike COBOL.
"Because PL/I provides indexed sequential files for which I want to use #LMDB,"
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/1riew0c/comment/o89rjd8/
@hyc
Doesn't surprise me, PL/I is the brainchild of a meeting room full of IBM execs who were like "why do we need all these programming languages, let's design one big one that has the features of all the other ones and we can get rid of all these compiler teams"
Of course they then discovered https://xkcd.com/927/ but hey
@martyh
Doesn't surprise me, PL/I is the brainchild of a meeting room full of IBM execs who were like "why do we need all these programming languages, let's design one big one that has the features of all the other ones and we can get rid of all these compiler teams"
Of course they then discovered https://xkcd.com/927/ but hey
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