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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: The smallest TSR contest
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:36:55 GMT
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- beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
-
- [...]
- >One advantage of Pascal over C is that the Pascal is
- >embedded in the code and C is not (C must call standard library while
- >standard Pascal can expend more directly some statements like the
- >print (Fortran do the same).
-
- This is not true.
-
- A C compiler may well expand calls to standard functions, like
- printf("%s\n",s);
- with equivalent but more efficient code, eg.
- puts(s);
- Indeed such compilers do exist, although they are not common.
-
- See the recent discussion on comp.lang.fortran.
-
- --
- Fergus Henderson fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
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