Early PL/I

Early PL/I

(language)(EPL) A PL/I subset dialect by McIlroy, Morris etal, the first running PL/I compiler. It was used by Bell Labs and MIT to write Multics. EPL had extensions tohandle the segment/offset nature of Multics pointers.

See also REPL, TMG.

["EPL Reference Manual", Project MAC, April 1966].

[Sammet 1969, p. 542].