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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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- From: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
- Subject: Re: Interest in comments on the C language.
- Message-ID: <1996Mar22.003221.24157@zcon.com>
- Sender: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: zodiac
- Reply-To: szh@zcon.com
- Organization: Z Consulting Group
- References: <4ise7q$p09@news1.mnsinc.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:32:21 GMT
-
- In article <4ise7q$p09@news1.mnsinc.com>, huang@mnsinc.com (Szu-Wen Huang) writes:
- >Oliver R Jones (orj@cs.waikato.ac.nz) wrote:
- >
- >: 1: Is C inheriantly efficient (speed and code space wise)?
- >
- >Yes, because C is closely coupled to machine architectures. (Contrast
- >with Prolog or Lisp, for instance).
-
- Well ... don't ignore certain systems (albeit perhaps anomalies <grin>)
- like the Symbolics Lisp Machine. I used one for three years (from 1983
- to 1986) and still consider it to be the finest programming environment
- I have ever used - even by today's standards.
-
- Its features, clean windowing, outstanding compilation environment
- (with incremental compilation, integrated editor, debugger, etc.) and
- all the system tools interaction has not been cleanly duplicated in any
- other system/environment that I have used since then. At the time, I
- claimed that I could code applications about 3 to 5 times faster on the
- LM3600 than anything else I could find, and it is still probably true
- today.
-
- But, I digress from the newsgroup charter, so 'nuff said.
-
- Z
-
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