PL360
Encyclopedia
PL360 is a programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth
for the IBM System/360 computer. It provides facilities for specifying exact machine language instructions and registers similar to assembly language
, but also provides features commonly found in high-level languages, such as complex arithmetic expressions and control structures.
Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.-Biography:Wirth...
for the IBM System/360 computer. It provides facilities for specifying exact machine language instructions and registers similar to assembly language
Assembly language
An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture...
, but also provides features commonly found in high-level languages, such as complex arithmetic expressions and control structures.