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)