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- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
- In-Reply-To: hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk's message of Wed, 13 Mar 1996
- 17:28:59 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 17:46:04 GMT
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- In article <1996Mar13.172859.88220@ucl.ac.uk> hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (G. Ruth Hammond) writes:
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- > |> -- and(!) performance
- >
- > C is far easier to optimise than, say, ADA.
-
- I suppose this is just one more example of Jay Martin's description of
- the "not too swift C hacker". Assuming that "easier" means or implies
- that you get better or more complete optimizations, the above comment
- is just plain wrong. Worse, the opposite is closer to the truth -
- languages like Ada are "easier" to optimize than C (as has been well
- discussed in the literature). Same for Eiffel. In fact, there is
- observatonal evidence (not "just" theory) that supports this quite
- convincingly for both Ada and Eiffel.
-
- Rhetorical comment: Do any of these C hacker types actually have a clue??
-
- /Jon
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