On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 11:20:10AM +0000, Rupert Reynolds wrote: > Vaguely related, can anyone comment on the assertions that PL/I was > considered "too slow" back in the old days, and that it was "too verbose > for writing system code"? Excuse me? MVS system macros are stuffed with its > close relative, PL/S!
I used PL/1 back in the MVT days, F level. My memory says that it did a getmain/freemain for each PL1 procedure call. So reading a file of students (30k+) you couldn't afford a procedure call in the path. It was ok to use them during init and term (which only happened once). This was a 360/91KK and 2314 disks... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
