Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!joyce!sri-unix!garth!smryan From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Many people's opinions on computer languages Message-ID: <1413@garth.UUCP> Date: 14 Sep 88 22:16:14 GMT References: <3938@enea.se> <923@l.cc.purdue.edu> <382@quintus.UUCP> <402@quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA Lines: 16 >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.