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• IBM had a PL/I, Its syntax worse than JOSS; And everywhere this language went, It was a total loss.
• IBM had a PL/I, Its syntax worse than JOSS: And everywhere this language went, It was a total loss.
  -- The Great Quux June 1973...
• It appears that PL/I (and its dialects) is, or will be, the most widely used higher level language for systems programming.
  -- J. Samme...
• Brief History Of Linux (#17) If only Gary had been sober When Micro-soft moved to Seattle in 1979
  most of its revenue came from sales of BASIC, a horrible language so dependant on GOTOs that spaghetti looked more orderly than its code did....
• A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax
  no greater liability than a command of the language. -- Marya Manne...
• Quote #124 `Do not use procedures; they are expensive'.
  -- -- from IBM's PL/I (F) documentation, circa 1966...
• Mary had a little lamb The doctors were astounded.
  And everywhere that Mary went Gynecologists surrounded....
• Language: A system of organizing and defining syntax errors.