RE: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Invoking a function from a list of functions

[Drew Adams]

> > The PL/I project by IBM and SHARE resulted in
> > Fortran and COBOL
> 
> PL/1 post-dates Cobol by at least 7 years.  By the time PL/1 was
> available, Cobol was already commercially successful.  What use did the
> Cobol programmer have for PL/1?  And what evidence that it's a simpler
> language?

And Fortran certainly came years before "the PL/I project".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I#Early_history