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>>In article <4666d281.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> perry@apollo.HP.COM (Jim Perry) writes:
>>>I'll take exception with "doesn't run on any interesting machines"; I'll
>>>grant you that there's no UNIX implementation that I'm aware of, and that
>>>may have killed it.

I'm not going to defend PL/I, but I want to point out that there are some 
UNIX implementations of it.  One implementation is on the MIPS machines,
which are RISC UNIX boxes.  However, it is true that PL/I compilers are 
not as widespread as C or Pascal compilers; that's probably because PL/I 
compilers are harder to write.  There's a cyclic problem here in that 
complicated languages are less likely to be implemented, and fewer 
implementations mean fewer users which means fewer implementations....  
To overcome this hurdle you need a strong initial demand for the language 
(as Ada has because of DoD mandates).