In short, PL/I is a crazy old *(programming language).

Richard Holt's paper _(Teaching the Fatal Disease
|http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~holt/papers/fatal_disease.html) is a good read, it'll make you laugh :)

More PL/I information: _(http://home.nycap.rr.com/pflass/pli.htm)

See _(COBOL), _(FORTRAN), _(ALGOL), _(MULTICS)
