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- From: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java closer to Modula-3 than to C++
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 16:34:59 GMT
- Organization: Borland International
- Message-ID: <4h207j$eks@druid.borland.com>
- References: <31308FE2.167E@sophia.inria.fr> <3131D831.595C@icl.co.za> <DnG4AM.6Hs@cee.hw.ac.uk>
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- In article <DnG4AM.6Hs@cee.hw.ac.uk>, ceepb@cee.hw.ac.uk says...
- >
- >Kevin Berry (kevinb@icl.co.za) wrote:
- >
- >[lots of C++ compiler frustration cut]
- >
- >[Delphi compiler enthusiasm cut, excluding...]
- >
- >: 7. Only needs 8MB RAM.
- >
- >Well I have used a C++ compiler which runs on a 2MB
- >machine, and still has room for program code (and
- >the OS)!
- >
- >It doesn't compile all that quickly, but that is
- >because I am using it with two floppy disc drives
- >(no hard drive).
- >
- >Now what were you saying?
-
- Now, now, the original posting raises a valid point. Pascal puts the burden on
- the programmer to do a lot of the work that the compiler does in other
- languages. That makes it easy to compile, which is why Pascal compilers can
- be very fast, but it makes it hard to write. I once heard of a team of two
- programmers working on a project in Pascal. One of them wrote the code, and
- the other wrote the semicolons.
-
-