Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:38:38 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

I was once called in to optimize a CPU-bound COBOL program.
The genius who wrote it declared all subscripts as COMP-3.
Changing them to COMP-4 knocked 30% off the execution time.

Did you just change

   DEFINE TYPE COMP AS COMP-3

to

   DEFINE TYPE COMP as COMP-4

and that would take effect everywhere that COMP was used?

Oh, wait, COBOL didn’t have typedefs ...