On 9/30/2013 5:17 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
the early versions of PL/I were atrocious; e.g., changing a bit flag resulted in a subroutine call rather than one or two instructions in-line.
Later PL/I versions did a great job optimizing and formed the basis for today's ultra-smart IBM compiler back-ends.
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