50 years ago, I worked for IBM in a mainframe-environment and was an absolute fan of PL/I, this powerful and flexible language. Today I'm retired and would like to program in this language again.
I'm searching for a PL/I-Compiler for my Windows 10 machine. Where can I find one? Do you know a free software? Or how much would it cost?
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You may use ibm360 emulators like Music, or Hercules, where you run 360/370 even 390 Emulations where you can run the original IMB PL/I(F) Tapes ( getit at CBTAPES). There's a very good PL/I made by Digital research, you can run in CPM on MYz80 or YAZE emulators. Theres even a free version of an OS/2, and LInux by Iron Spring. Yesterday night I compiled some stuff I did in the 80's using Digital Research PL/I on a CPM emulator environment.
I loved this language, since I was at the engineering school, and did my thesis on making a cross compiler, with PL/I. Then I moved to C and C++, which I find very similar to
I'm happy to hear of your fondness for PL/I! IBM no longer has a PL/I product for Windows (we have PL/I compilers that run on AIX and on z/OS). Microfocus may still sell a PL/I compiler for Windows.