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Article #1323Re: Compiler Costs
From: diamond
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 05:40
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 05:40
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In article <2617@igloo.scum.com> nevin@igloo.scum.com (Nevin Liber) writes: -There are two ways of programming in C: - (1) writing high-level portable code - (2) using it as a macro-assembler -Unfortunately, it is darn near impossible to write code which satisfies -both of these goals! True. However: -And from a maintenance standpoint, assembler -itself is better than C for goal #2. Some people at Bell Labs felt exactly the opposite of the way you feel. Because of their feelings, they invented C. -- Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com This is me speaking. If you want to hear the company speak, you need DECtalk.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!diamond From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Compiler Costs Message-ID: <1845@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 12 Jul 90 05:40:39 GMT References: <1797@apctrc.UUCP> <1565@uvm-gen.UUCP> <1990Jul8.183551.13891@nlm.nih.gov> <2617@igloo.scum.com> Reply-To: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 19