21 Nov
2017
21 Nov
'17
1:26 a.m.
anyone use apple /// cobol, used it back when it was current?
I did not but I think my experience with CP/M C and PL/1 are relevant. 1) I used Whitesmith's "C" compiler on CP/M in 1982. It was very slow and almost painful to use - so many phases with constant floppy disk access. And it was not quite the full language or environment. A friend gave me a substitute printf() with more options than the standard library. 2) I used PL/I "F" on IBM mainframes in high school (early 80s). The PL/I subset for CP/M was just too weak to use for much. And like the "C" compiler, was horribly s l o w to compile and link. -- jeff jonas