What should be added to C, call it PL/2

Dean Elsner x at mit-prep.ARPA
Wed May 28 12:40:03 AEST 1986


Sorry, I don't think you can call it PL/2!
IBM was going to call PL/1 "NPL" (New Programming Language?) until
National Physical Laboratories told them not to. They then registered
names PL/1 ... PL/100 (!). I don't think they reserved PL/0.
I don't know what 'registered' means here, but I presume trademarked.
This is from memory, and may be wrong.
x at prep.ai.mit.edu (Dean Elsner)   Disclaimer: I am not me. Much. Often.
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