Re: your mail

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. wrote:

> I must disagree with the "poor" implementation of PL/I on the 38 and 400. I
> had RPG and COBOL both choking on a particular math problem (8 hours and
> only 25% done) while the PL/I compiler had the job COMPLETED in less than 2
> hours!
> 


Bruce, 

the reason I said poor was because it wasn't the full PL/I implementation
that we had on the mainframes.  There was missing functionality in the
S/38 implementation...don't ask me what now as I've not done that in a
while...

But, yeah, other than that I liked it...

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