Talk:Plus (programming language)

Jeff Ogden (talk) 17:44, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Two programming languages use the name PLUS
It turns out that two different programming languages use the name PLUS. The one described in this article is from the University of British Columbia. The other is from Univac. I will add a note to the article pointing this out.

Here is an e-mail exchange that I had with Alan Ballard about this:

From: Jeff Ogden Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:58 AM To: Alan Ballard Cc: Paul Whaley; Steve Burling Subject: Re: Plus language manual Just checking to make sure that this is the same PLUS programming language that we all know and love. I guess I could make a trip to the library and look at the article on paper. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=954127.954144 The PLUS programming language Full text Pdf (747 KB) Source ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive Volume 15, Issue 1  (January 1980) table of contents Pages: 146 - 155 Year of Publication: 1980 ISSN:0362-1340 Author Frank W. Stodola, Sperry Univac, Roseville, Minnesota Publisher ACM New York, NY, USA

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From: "Alan Ballard" Date: July 1, 2010 3:02:26 PM EDT To: "Jeff Ogden" Cc: "Paul Whaley", "Steve Burling" Subject: RE: Plus language manual No it isn’t…. that’s a “programming language for Univac systems” or something like that…. We found out about it sometime after we had named our language…. There was a paper on our Plus in the Canadian Information Processing Society proceedings, but I don’t seem to be able to  find a copy and they don’t have online archives so can’t give you a reference. If I get out to UBC, I might be able to find it in the library there…

Jeff Ogden (talk) 19:34, 1 July 2010 (UTC)