In <[email protected]>, on
11/22/2011
at 01:38 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]>
said:
>Those teenagers who can program in PL/I are very good, I admit, but
>what is the PL/I overhead?
For what? The last time that I looked the overhead for I/O was very
low. The overhead for bit manipulation was ludicrous; subroutine calls
for things that should have been inline code.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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