Re: The joy of FORTRAN

Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-09-27, geodandw <geodandw@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 9/27/24 13:43, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

On 2024-09-27, geodandw <geodandw@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Cobol was also very portable.

 
As long as your destination compiler supports COMP-3.  :-)

 
Or your source computer didn't have COMP-3, or if you didn't use it.

 
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.
 

BTDT. That’s why I always believed all programmers should have some
knowledge of the underlying machine architecture.

--
Pete