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Fortran was my first language. It's crap on working with character data. I happily moved to PL/1. I was in a project using Fortran for telecom switches and had
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 4y ago
Fortran was my first language. It's crap on working with character data. I happily moved to PL/1.
I was in a project using Fortran for telecom switches and had to add an Assembler routine for character manipulation.
PL/I can produce efficient numeric code, provided you avoid library calls, and dope vectors (use static and pointers).
However that requires setting standards to avoid PL/I performance traps.
PL/I data conversion library subroutines can bog performance by a factor of 10.