13 Jan
2012
13 Jan
'12
3:34 a.m.
On 13 Jan 2012 at 10:40, Michael Richter wrote:
This is because the *I/O routines* were Fortran's.
They linked to
Fortran libraries for I/O, in short.
So SNOBOL4's link to FORTRAN isn't imaginary. :)
I have a cheap laptop here and can, according to
CSNOBOL's timing
utility, pump about 2.5 million operations per second. I'm pretty
sure a '360 couldn't do that... :D
Especially not a model 40. Even using a S/360 emulator on a modern
laptop would probably run a couple of orders of magnitude faster.
Thanks,
Chuck