PL/I

PL/I ("Programming Language One", pronounced "pee el one") is an imperative computer programming language designed for scientific, engineering, and business applications. It is undoubtedly one of the most feature-rich programming languages that has ever been created and one of the very first in the highly-feature-rich category.

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It has been used by various academic, commercial and industrial users since it was introduced in the early 1960s, and is still actively used today. See the newsletterhttp://www.users.bigpond.com/robin_v/pli-n8.htm.

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PL/I's principal domain is data processing; it supports recursion and structured programming. The language syntax is English-like and suited for describing complex data formats, with a wide set of functions available to verify and manipulate them.

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Imperative: In computer science, imperative programming, as opposed to declarative programming, is a programming paradigm in which side-effects are employed as central execution feature.The imperative mood is a grammatical mood expressing commands, direct requests, and prohibitions.An imperative can refer to a ...

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