Re: Many people's opinions on computer languages

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From: Steven Ryan
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1988 22:16

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>Summary of Montgomery's message:  64-bit integer operations, and find first
>bit.  Summary of my reply:  PL/I can express them.

My complaint of PL/I is that is does TOO much--everything's there, but you
aren't sure what you're getting.

F'r instance, decimal fixpoint arithmetic is nice if the cpu has decimal
instructions, but not so nice if it's a binary-only machine.
 
>Could we have some discussion of why
>    - PL/I BIT(N) and FIXED(P[,Q]) data types and the operations it provides
>      are not adequate
>    - ADA machine code inserts are not adequate
>    - "inline" or V.3 asm functions are not adequate
>    - what could be done to make them adequate

Probably because this started out as gripes about C.

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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
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Subject: Re: Many people's opinions on computer languages
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Date: 14 Sep 88 22:16:14 GMT
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