[HECnet] Benchmarks - WHETSTONE.C

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Tue Jan 15 09:49:36 PST 2013


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:13 PM, <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote:
PL/C I remember as a hopelessly unreliable piece of junk I was forced to use at the University of Illinois, under OS/370.   I don't remember it on other platforms.

I can not comment one way or the other, as I never either saw it's guts or used it for anything other than as a toy compiler on TSS.    We had the real IBM compiler which is what I used there.

PL/360 was Wirth's 1967 subset language used to write AlgolW



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