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Designed and implemented in 1973 by Gary Kildall, PL/M (Programming Language for Microcomputers) is (as the name suggests) a language designed for microcomputer software, particularly system software.
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There are no built-in I/O statements - calls to appropriate routines would be made instead.
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Available datatypes (BYTE, WORD, etc.) reflected the available types of the microprocessors.
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Compilers were available for a number of microprocessors including the 8080 Z80.
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Kildall's original PL/M compiler was implemented entirely in standard Fortran 66.
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