The Language for Systems Development (LSD) was a programming language developed in 1971 at Brown University for the

IBM System/360 The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems that was announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978. It was the first family of computers designed to cover both commercial and scientific applic ...

. The language was also referred to as LSyD due to the negative connotations of the acronym "LSD" at the time. LSD was derived from

PL/I PL/I (Programming Language One, pronounced and sometimes written PL/1) is a procedural, imperative computer programming language developed and published by IBM. It is designed for scientific, engineering, business and system programming. It ...

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* IBM System/360 mainframe line Systems programming languages {{prog-lang-stub