PL1 was such a huge language.
So different from something like C, which is tiny.
But PL1 was easy and it worked.
The article is interesting. It’s basically a “how to” article to try to convince younger IT workers to sign up to work on legacy mainframe systems.
I bet that’s a pretty hard sell. No one in the computer industry would take seriously a manager making an offer like that, the days of company loyalty are long gone, killed off by management practices.
As a programmer your first job is to keep your skills up to date so that when you are laid off you can quickly acquire a new job. Working on some companies ancient mainframe code doesn’t fit into that model.