Long considered strictly a mainframe language, PL/I is now the focus ofrenewed interest, particularly in view of its acknowledged securityadvantages over C. New compilers are available or under development on a range ofplatforms, and software is being ported to PL/I.
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| Description of PL/I | PL/I Compilers and Tools | PL/I Bibliography of books and articles | PL/I Programming Style Guide | The PL/I Language Family | PL/I Virtual Reference Library (Index of manuals) | PL/I Virtual Source Archive | Numerical Algorithms in PL/I, from Robin Vowels. Robin has given permission for Team PL/I to host his extensive collectionsof algorithms. | PL/I Bulletins, 1966-1969. | UK GUIDE PL/I library (zip file). | |
 | Hugh Gleaves has released thesource for his Subset-G compiler for Windows-NT and above. |
| IBM offers downloads,sample code, and PL/I manuals in Adobe PDF format. |
| ThePL1GCC project at SourceForge isdeveloping a PL/I front-end for the open-source Gnu Compiler Collection (gcc). |
| CBTTAPE.ORG maintains the SHARE PL/I modificationslibrary. |
| Rosetta Code PL/I over 400 examples of various PL/I solutions for various tasks. |
| The VM Workshop maintains a tools archive with some PL/I-related material. |
| Detailed comparison of PL/I and C by Eberhard Sturm. |
| "Teaching the Fatal Disease (or) Introductory Computer Programming Using PL/I" by Richard C. Holt |
| Multicians.org presents information on the history and features of the PL/I compilers used tobuild the Multics Operating System. |
| MIT Information on the Multics operating system including full source in PL/I. |
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