PL/I

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1967)

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holdenweb

jancona

danceswithvowels

joemcmahon

vangale

Cema

pkshiu

ndw

brucehoult

abtin

sceptreofjudah

holdenweb - 7 years

jancona - 1 years

danceswithvowels - 1 years

joemcmahon - 2 years

vangale - 1 years

Cema - 3 years

pkshiu - 6 years

ndw - 5 years

brucehoult - 3 years

abtin - 1 years

sceptreofjudah - 3 years

holdenweb

1967–1973

jancona

1972

Took a programming class for high school students at Columbia. PL/I on an IBM 360. My only experience with punch cards!

danceswithvowels

1973

Only used in a class to write an assembler, loader, and interpreter. Back in the days of doing your homework on cards and submitting them through cubbyholes for the 360 Model 155 to get to, maybe 4 hours later, on good days.

joemcmahon

1977–1978

The required first language for CS students at WVU when I was there. Abandoned it for assembler as soon as it was possible to do so.

vangale

1981

Yay for big iron at WVU. Mostly programmed this with punch cards.

Cema

1982–1984

Learned in high school, had a bit of practice, that's all.

pkshiu

1983–1988

My first commercial programming job, on a Stratus fault tolerant mini computer. It was a PL/1 subset implementation, which is pretty good actually for large scale software.

brucehoult

1985–1987

In my first job my first task was to buy a compiler for the Data General MV10000 -- the choices were FORTRAN, COBOL, or PL/I. The choice was easy...

ndw

1985–1989

abtin

1986

sceptreofjudah

1989–1991

I used PL/I working for Boeing on an 8051 system for the thrust reverser/landing gear control unit. Don't blame me! My job was to review the code and I told them it would happen. (!!! 3x) Later, I used it for technical reviews when working for some victims' attorney.