> On Aug 20, 12:33 am, David Muxworthy<d.muxwor
...@bcs.org.uk> wrote:
>> There is a British Standard for PL/I which was copied from European
>> standard 26160:1989 which in turn was simply a copy of ISO 6160:1979.
>> BSI have just become aware that the European standard was withdrawn
>> some time ago and now propose withdrawing the BS. On the other hand
>> the ISO standard was reconfirmed as recently as 2008.
>> The BSI programming languages committee (IST/5) has not had a PL/I
>> representative since 1991. This message is therefore to ask if PL/I
>> users in the UK (are there any?) would be affected by withdrawal of
>> the BS. Obviously withdrawal would have no technical effect but just
>> could affect contracts.
>> Separately there is the PL/I General Purpose standard ISO 6522:1992,
>> also reconfirmed in 2008. BSI also standardized a copy of that but
>> still regard it as current.
> BSI might want to look at updating the BS standards, in view of
> significant enhancements to the language by IBM from 1994
> to the present time.
