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Re: why PL/I makes us sad, iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work?

From John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: why PL/I makes us sad, iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work?
Date 2021-07-11 02:23 +0000
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According to Robin Vowels  <robin.vowels@gmail.com>:
>Unfortunately, he omitted to provide the REORDER keyword
>for the PROCEDURE statement in the case of IBM's PL/I compiler. ...

>P. J. Jaliks compared COBOL and PL/I.  His PL/I version ran slower by
>2-3 times of because of inappropriate variable declarations and
>failure to disable fixed-point interrupts. ...

PL/I makes it too easy to write bad programs, particularly if you don't know the folklore about what is
efficient and what is not.

One time I wrote a program that used an array of 12 bit fields and the code from PL/I F was stupendously
bad.  As I recall, each access converted the value to decimal and back, and no, I didn't
do picture formatting or anything like that.  I expect that if I'd made them 16 bit fields and just used
the low 12 bits it would have been OK, but I ran out of time.

-- 
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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