Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : drb (at) *nospam* ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 27. Sep 2024, 05:23:01
Autres entêtes
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> That was one of the things holding up adoption. They fixed it with the
> “Optimizing Compiler”, but it was a bit late by then. PL/I(F) was all
> overlays. It kept the working text of the program in memory and made
> I-don’t-know how many passes thru it. Trying to make it fit in a 64K
> partition was a major problem.
Thirty-couple, iirc from looking at the source decks once.
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