PL/I Bibliography

Online Books:

Books:

	Abel, Peter Structured programming in PL/I and PL/C: a problem-solving approach Reston, VA, Reston Publishing Co., 1985; 571p. ISBN: 0-83597122-8
	Abrahams, Paul The PL/I Programming Language New York, NY, The Courant Instutute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 1979; 151p.
	Anderson, Mary Ellen PL/I for Business Applications Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1973; 397p. ISBN: 0-136-76957-8
	Anger, Arthur Computer Science: The PL/I Language New York, NY, John Wiley and Sons, 1971; 133p. ISBN: 0-471-03296-9
	Anklam, Patricia, et. al. Engineering a Compiler; VAX-11 Code Generation and Optimization Bedford, MA, Digital Press, 1982; 269p. ISBN: 0-932-37619-3
	American National Standards Institute American National Standard: programming language PL/I New York, NY, American National Standards Institute, 1979 (Rev 1998); 403p. ANSI Standard X3.53-1976
	American National Standards Institute American National Standard: information systems - programming language - PL/I general-purpose subset New York, NY, American National Standards Institute, 1987; 449p. ANSI Standard X3.74-1987
	Augenstein, Moshe and Tenenbaum, Aaron Data Structures and PL/I Programming Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1979; 643p. ISBN: 0-131-97731-8
	Barnes, Robert Arthur PL/I for programmers New York, NY, North Holland, 1979; 561p. ISBN: 0-444-00284-7
	Bates, Frank, and Douglas, Mary L. Programming Language/One, 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1970; 420p.
	Brown, Gary DeWard Fortran to PL1 Dictionary PL/1 to Fortran Dictionary New York, NY, John Wiley and Sons, 1975 ISBN: 0-471-10796-4
	Clark, Ann, and Mandell, Steven A Short Course in PL/I and PL/C Saint Paul, MN, West Publishing, 1978; 190p. ISBN: 0-829-902198-X
	Clark, Frank James Introduction to PL/1 Programming Boston, MA, Allyn and Bacon, 1971; 244p.
	Conway, Richard Programming for Poets: A Gentle Introduction Using PL/1 Cambridge, MA, Winthrop Publishers, 1978; 347p. ISBN: 0-876-26724-X
	Conway, Richard, and Gries, David An Introduction to Programming. A Structured Approach Using PL/I and PL/C Cambridge, MA, Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 1973; 460p. ISBN: 0-876-26406-2
	Dadashzadeh, M. PL/1 Programming Language Essentials Piscataway, NJ, Research and Education Association, 1990; 112p. ISBN: 0-878-91695-4
	Davidson, Melvin G. PL/I Programming with PL/C Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1973; 228p. ISBN: 0-395-14518-X
	Davis, Charles Hargis Illustrative Computer Programming for Libraries Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1981; 129p. ISBN: 0-313-22151-0
	Davis, Kathi H., and Domina, Lyle Structured Programming: PL/I with PL/C New York, NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1988; 683p. ISBN: 0-030-03723-9
	Edwards, Leonard E. PL/I for Business Applications Reston, VA, Reston Pub. Co., 1973; 480p. ISBN: 0-879-09631-4, 0-879-09630-6
	Fike, C[harles]. T. PL/I for scientific programmers Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1970; 241p.
	Fosdick, Howard Structured PL/I Programming: for textual and library processing Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1982; 304p. ISBN: 0-872-87328-5
	Goldberg, David E., et. al. PL/I and Pl/C Workbook Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1984. 176p. ISBN: 0-136-77618-3
	Groner, Gabriel F. PL/I programming in technological applications New York, NY, Wiley-Interscience, 1971; 242p. ISBN: 0-835-79955-7
	Harrow, Keith, Goldberg, David E., and Langsam, Yedidyah Problem Solving Using PL/I and PL/C Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1984
	Hughes, Joan Kirkby PL/I Structured Programming, 3rd Ed. New York, NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1987; 656p. ISBN: 0-471-83746-6
	Hughes, Joan K., and La Pearl, Barbara J. Structured Programming Using PL/C New York, NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1981; 414p. ISBN: 0-471-04969-7
	IBM Corporation A Guide to PL/I for Commercial Programmers White Plains, NY, International Business Machines Corp. IBM Publication number C20-1651
	IBM Corporation A Guide to PL/I for FORTRAN Users White Plains, NY, International Business Machines Corp., 1967; 36p. IBM Publication number C20-1637
	IBM Corporation An Introduction to Structured Programming in PL/I White Plains, NY, International Business Machines Corp., 1967; 51p. IBM Publication number SC20-1777-1
	IBM Corporation An Introduction to the List Processing Facilities of PL/I White Plains, NY, International Business Machines Corp., 1971; 87p. IBM Publication number GF20-0015-1
	IBM Corporation Student Language - A Teaching Subset of PL/I - Teaching Guide White Plains, NY, International Business Machines Corp. IBM Publication number GR09-0004-1
	IBM Corporation Student Text; A PL/I Primer White Plains, NY, International Business Machines Corp., 1977; 72p. IBM Publication number C28-6808-0
	Kennedy, Michael, and Solomon, Martin B. Eight Statement PL/C (PL/ZERO) Plus PL/ONE Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1972; 512p. ISBN: 0-132-46827-1
	Kennedy, Michael, and Solomon, Martin B. Structured PL/zero plus PL/one Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1977; 695p. ISBN: 0-138-54901-X
	Lamie, Edward L. PL/I Programming: A Structured, Disciplined Approach Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1982; 330p. ISBN: 0-534-01067-9
	Lecht, Charles Philip The Programmer's PL/I; a Complete Reference. Forward by Robert Bemer New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 1968; 427p. Review: Computerworld Jul 3, 1968.
	Lewi, Johan, and Pardaens, Jan Data Structures of Pascal, Algol 68, PL/I, and Ada New York, Springer-Verlag, 1986; 395p. ISBN: 0-387-15121-4
	Logicon, inc. Guide to PL/I / prepared under contract F19628-67-C-0396 by Logicon Incorporated Detroit, MI, American Data Processing, inc., 1969; 2v.
	Lynch, Robert Emmett Computers, Their Impact and Use : Structured Programming in PL/1 Holt McDougal, 1978; 442p. ISBN: 0-030-88527-2
	Mott, Thomas H., Artandi, Susan, and Struminger, Leny Introduction to PL/1 Programming for Library and Information Science New York, NY, Academic Press, 1972; 231p.
	Neuhold, Erich, and Lawson, Harold W. The PL/I Machine - an Introduction to Programming Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1971; 380p.
	Pollack, S.V., and Sterling, T.D. A Guide to PL/I New York, NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.,1969; 556p.
	Pollack, S.V., and Sterling, T.D. Essentials of PL/I New York, NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.,1974; 428p. ISBN: 0-03-084732-X
	Pritsker, A. Alan B., and Young, Robert E. Simulation with GASP-PL/I: a PL/I based continuous/discrete simulation language New York, NY, Wiley, 1975; 351p. ISBN: 0-471-70046-0, 0-608-11634-3
	Reddy, Rama N. and Ziegler, Carol A. PL/I: Structured Programming and Problem Solving Saint Paul, MN, West Publishing Company, 1986; 739p. ISBN: 0-314-93915-6
	Rich, Robert P. Internal sorting methods illustrated with PL/1 programs Englewood Cliffs, NJ., Prentice-Hall, 1972; 154p. ISBN: 0-134-72357-0
	Rockey, Clarence J. Structured PL/I Programming with Business Applications Dubuque, IA., W. C. Brown Co., 1981; 522 p. ISBN: 0-697-08141-9
	Rockey, Clarence J. Structured PL/1 Programming Dubuque, IA., W. C. Brown Co., 1985; 576 p. ISBN: 0-697-08180-3
	Ruston, Henry Programming with PL/I New York, McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1978; 541 p. ISBN: 0-070-54350-X
	Sayles, Jonathan PL/I Programmer's Guide to Embedded SQL for DB2. Wellesley, Mass.: QED Information Sciences, 1991; 372 p. ISBN: 0-894-35308-X
	SHARE Inc. The PL/I programming project techniques library Chicago, IL, SHARE, Inc., 1975; 129p.
	Shelly, Gary B., and Cashman, Thomas J. Introduction to Computer Programming IBM System/360 PL/I Fullerton, CA, Anaheim Publishers, 1978 ISBN: 0-882-36190-2
	Shortt, Joseph, and Wilson, Thomas C. Problem solving and the Computer: A structured Concept with PL/I (PL/C) Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1976; 372p. ISBN: 0-201-06916-4
	Spencer, Cynthia. Programming for the Liberal Arts, An Introduction to PL/C Totowa, NJ, Rowman & Allanheld, 1985; 110p. ISBN: 0-822-60391-8
	Sprowls, R. Clay PL/C: a processor for PL/I San Francisco, CA, Canfield Press, 1972; 247p. ISBN: 0-063-88591-3
	Sterling, Theodor D. and Pollack, Seymour V. Computing & Computer Science; A First Course with PL/I New York, NY, Macmillan Co., 1970; 414p.
	Stoutemyer, David R. PL/I Programming for Engineering and Science Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1971; 363p. ISBN: 0-136-76528-9
	Sturm, Eberhard The New PL/I Wiesbaden, DE, Vieweg+Teubner, 2009; 303p. ISBN: 978-3-8348-0726-7
	Tomasso, Carlo Computer programming; a practical course in SL/1, subset of PL/I London, New York, Foulsham, 1971; 132p. ISBN: 0-572-00765-5
	Tremblay, Jean-Paul, Bunt, Richard B., and Richardson, Judith A. Structured PL/I (PL/C) Programming New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 1980; 440p. ISBN: 0-070-65173-6
	Tremblay, Jean-Paul, and Sorenson, Paul G. An Implementation Guide to Compiler Writing New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 1982 ISBN: 0-070-65166-3
	Vowels, Robin A. Introduction to PL/I, Algorithms and Structured Programming, 3rd Ed. Parkville, Vic. AU, Robin Vowels, 1998 ISBN: 0-959-63849-0 [includes disc]
	Weinberg, Gerald M. PL/I Programming: A Manual of Style New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 1970; 441p.
	Weinberg, Gerald M. PL/I Programming Primer New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 1966; 278p.
	Weinberg, Gerald M., Yasukawa, Norie, and Marcus, Robert Structured Programming in PL/C; an Abecedarian New York, NY, John R. Wiley and Sons, 1973; 220p.
	Weiss, Eric A. The PL/I Converter New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 1966; 113p.
	Winters, John W. Power Programming with PL/I Blue Ridge Summit, PA, TAB Books, Inc., 1986; 227p. ISBN: 0-8306-0652-1
	Yalow, Edward C. YAQ: A 360 Assembler Version of the Algorithm A and Comparison with other PL/I Programs Urbana-Champaign, IL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977; 31p.

[Books]  [Technical Reports]

Articles:

	Abrahams, Paul W. "The CIMS PL/I Compiler" Proceedings of the SIGPLAN Symposium on Compiler Construction Denver, CO; Aug 6-10, 1979; 107-116.
	Abrahams, Paul "The PL/I Standard: An Apostate's View ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Sep 1979; 15-16.
	Abrahams, Paul W. "Subset/G PL/I and the PL/I Standard" Proceedings of the 1983 Annual Conference on Computers: Extending the Human Resource, 1983; 130-132.
	Adams, J. Mack, Inmon, William H., and Shirley, Jim. "PL/I in the computer science curriculum" Papers of the second ACM SIGCSE symposium on Education in computer science, 1972; 116-126.
	Ames, James L. "PL/I for Libraries" in Proceedings of the 1969 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, ed. Dewey E. Carroll. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library Science, 1969 68-74.
	Barnes, Richard "A Working Definition of the Proposed Extensions for PL/I Real-Time Applications" ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Oct 1979; 77-99.
	Battarel, G.J., and Chevance, R.J. "Requirements for a Safe PL/1 Implementation" ACM SIGPLAN Notices, May 1978; 12-22.
	Beech, D. "A structural view of PL/I" Computing Surveys  2(1970); 33-64.
	Beech, David, and Marcotty, Michael "Unfurling the PL/I Standard" ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Oct 1973; 12-43.
	Boulton, P.I.P., and Jeanes, D.L. "The Structure and Performance of PLUTO, a Teaching Oriented PL/I Compiler System" INFOR, Jun 1972; 140-153.
	Boulton, P.I.P., and Reid, P.A. "A Process-Control Language." IEEE Transactions on Computers C-18.11 (Nov 1969): 1049-1053.
	Burkhardt, Walter H. "PL/I: An Evaluation" Datamation, Nov 1966; 31-39.
	Busam, Vincent A. "A dictionary structure for a PL/I compiler" International Journal of Parallel Programming 1.3 (1972): 235-253.
	Chroust, Gerhard "History of PL/I" ICNL, 9(1978); p.148.
	Conrow, Kenneth, and Smith, Ronald G. "NEATER2: a PL/I source statement reformatter" CACM 13(1970); 669-675.
	Conway, Richard W., and Wilcox, Thomas R. "Design and implementation of a diagnostic compiler for PL/I" CACM  16(1973); 169-179.
	Conway, Richard. "The Case for PL/I as the Language for Instruction in Programming" Ithaca, NY, Cornell University, 1983; 13p.
	Corbató, F. J. "PL/I as a Tool for System Programming" Datamation, 6 May 1969; 68-76.
	Elshoff, James L. "A Study of the Structural Composition of PL/I Programs" ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Jun 1978; 29-37.
	Elshoff, James L. "The Influence of Structured Programming on PL/I Program Profiles" IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering  3(1977): 364-368.
	Elshoff, James L. "A Study of the Structural Composition of PL/I Programs" ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Jun 1978; 29-37.
	Elson,M., and Rake, S.T. "Code-generation technique for large-language compilers" IBM Systems Journal  9(1970):166-188.
	Epley, Donald, and Sjoerdsma, Ted. "A two-semester course sequence in introductory programming using PL/1 - a rationale and overview" The papers of the ACM SIGCSE ninth technical symposium on Computer science education, 1978; 113-119.
	Frantz, Donald G. "A PL/1 program to assist the comparative linguist" CACM 13(1970); 353-356.
	Freiburghouse, R.A. "The Multics PL/I Compiler" AFIPS Conference Proceedings: 1969 Fall Joint Computer Conference, Nov 1969; 187-199.
	Gauthier, Richard L. "PL/I compile time facilities" Datamation, Dec 1968; 32-34.
	Hac, Anna "PL/I as a Discrete Event Simulation Tool" Software - Practice and Experience  14(1984):697-702.
	Harrow, Keith, Langsam, Yedidyah, and Goldberg, David E. "Teaching PL/I Using a Microcomputer" ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Sep 1986:19-25.
	Hopkins, Mark "SABRE/PLI" Datamation, Dec 1968; 35-38.
	Hopkins, Martin "Problems of PL/I for System Programming" Proceedings of the SIGPLAN symposium on Languages for System Implementation, Oct 1971; 89-91.
	Irwin, Larry "Implementing phrase-structure productions in PL/I" CACM 10(1967); 424.
	Jalics, Paul J. "Cobol vs. PL/1: some performance comparisons" CACM 27(1984); 216-221.
	Lawson, Harold W. "PL/I list processing" CACM 10(1967); 358-367.
	Lucas, P., and Walk, K. "On the formal description of PL/I" Annual Review of Automatic Programming 6(1969): 105-182.
	Marco, Lou "In Praise of PL/I" Enterprise Systems Journal, Dec 1995; 32-37.
	MacLaren, M. Donald "Exception handling in PL/I" Proceedings of an ACM conference on Language design for reliable software, Mar, 1977; 101-104.
	McCracken, Daniel D. "The New Programming Language" Datamation, Jul 1964; 31-36.
	Myers, G.J. "Composite design facilities of six programming languages" IBM Systems Journal 15(1976): 212-224.
	Pantages, Angela "Language Objectives of the Late 60's" Datamation, Nov 1965; 141-142.
	Pohl, Ira "Phas-structure productions in PL/I: Phas-structure productions in PL/I0" CACM 10(1967); 757.
	Radin, George "The Early History and Characteristics of PL/I" ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, Jun 1978; 227-241. An audio recording of this presentation augmented with photographs is available at: http://tennessee.cc.vt.edu/~hopl/pl1.html
	Ramsey, Brian S., and Cannon, jr., Robert L. "A VSAM PL/I Interface" Proceedings of the ACM 16th Annual Southeast Regional Conference, 1978; 269-270.
	Rubey, Raymond J. "A comparative evaluation of PL/I" Datamation, Dec 1968; 22-25.
	Schipma, Peter B., et.al. "Use of PL/1 in a Bibliographic Information Retrieval System" Unpublished paper, Jan 1971. ERIC document ED048907
	Schroeder, E.B. "Odes to a new language" Datamation, Dec 1968; 39. [verse]
	Shaw, Christopher J. "PL/I for C&C" Datamation, Dec 1968; 26-31.
	Sibley, R.A. "A New Programming Language: PL/I" Proceedings of the 20th National Conf., Assoc. for Computing Machinery (1965):543-563.
	Siler, Kenneth F. "A PL/I model of an emergency medical system" Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Winter Simulation, Assoc. for Computing Machinery (1973):882.
	Sitton, Gary A., Kendrick, Thomas A., and Carrick, jr., A. Gil. "The PL/EXUS Language and Virtual Machine" Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE symposium on high-level-language computer architecture, Nov 1973:124-130.
	Snell, Betty "Programming library applications in PL/I" in Proceedings of the 1969 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, ed. Dewey E. Carroll. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library Science, 1969 81-97.
	Sugimoto, Masakatsu "PL/I Reducer and Direct Parser" Proceedings of the 24th National Conf., Assoc. for Computing Machinery (1969):519-538.
	Symonds, A.J. "Interactive Graphics in Data Processing: Auxiliary-storage associative data structure for PL/I" IBM Systems Journal  7(1968):229-245.
	Tenny, T. "Program Readability: Procedures vs. Comments" IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering; 14(1988): 1271-1279.
	Vowels, Robin A. "PL/I for OS/2" ACM SIGPLAN Notices, March 1996; 22-27.
	Voysey, Hedley "PL/I in the UK" Datamation, Sep 1967; 73-74.
	Wade, Bradford W., and Schneider, Victor B. "A general-purpose high-level language machine for minicomputers" Proceedings of the meeting on SIGPLAN/SIGMICRO interface, May 1973:169-171.
	Wagner, R.A., and Morgan, H.L. "PL/C: The design of a high performance compiler for PL/I" AFIPS Conference Proceedings: 1971 Spring Joint Computer Conference, 1971; 503-510.
	Wegner, P. "The Vienna Definition Language" Computing Surveys  4(1972): 5-63.
	Weisert, Conrad "Has the King Returned?" ACM SIGPLAN Notices, April, 1993; 9-10.
	Wolman, Barry L. "Debugging PL/I Programs in the Multics Environment" AFIPS Conference Proceedings: 1972 Fall Joint Computer Conference, 1972; 507-514.
	Wortman, D. B. "Student PL - A PL/I Dialect Designed for Teaching" Proceedings of Canadian Computer Conference, Montreal, Jun 1972
	Wortman, David B., Khaiat, Phillip J., and Lasker, David M. "Six PL/I Compilers" Software—Practice and Experience 6.3 (1976): 411-422

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[Books]  [Articles]

Technical Reports:

	Alber, K., Oliva, P., and Urschler, H. The Concrete Syntax of PL/I Vienna, AT, IBM Laboratory, 1968 Technical Report TR 25.084
	Alber, K., and Oliva, P. Translation of PL/I into Abstract Text Vienna, AT, IBM Laboratory, 1968 Technical Report TR 25.086
	Allen, C.D., et. al. An abstract interpreter of PL/I IBM United Kingdom Labs, 1966 Technical Note TN3004
	American National Standards Institute Information Processing Systems Technical Report Real-Time Extensions for PL/I (NOT AN AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD) New York, NY, American National Standards Institute, 1989. ANSI Standard ANSI X3/TR-7-1989
	Beech, D. et. al. Abstract Syntax of PL/I IBM United Kingdom Labs, 1966 Technical Note TN3002
	Beech, D. et. al. Concrete Syntax of PL/I IBM United Kingdom Labs, 1966 Technical Note TN3001
	Beech, D. Nicholls, J.E., and Rowe, R. A PL/I translator IBM United Kingdom Labs, 1966 Technical Note TN3003
	Bullen, Jr., R. H. GRASP: A PL/I Compatible Graphics Subroutine Package For The IBM 2260 Display Station Volume I: Introduction and User's Manual Volume II: Program Specifications Bedford, MA, MITRE Corporation, 1970 Technical Report ESD-TR-70-124
	Lucas, P., et. al. Informal Introduction to the abstract syntax and interpretation of PL/I Vienna, AT, IBM Laboratory, 1968 Technical Report TR 25.083
	Logicon, Inc. (ed) PROCEEDINGS OF PL/I SEMINARS, December 5, 1967 and March 5, 1968 San Pedro, CA, Logicon, Inc., 1968 Technical Report ESD-TR-68-154
	Sullivan, Joseph E. HASP: A PL/1 Hash Storage Package Bedford, MA, MITRE Corporation, 1969 Technical Report ESD-TR-69-364
	Walk, K., et. al. Abstract syntax for interpretation of PL/I Vienna, At, IBM Laboratory, 1968 Technical Report TR 25.082

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