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Article #208Re: What is a type? (was Re: Fortran90 and Arrays)
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:38
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:38
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In article <1992Apr13.212346.335@newshost.lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
> In J, SmallTalk, etc. _all_ attributes are dynamic and can only be
> restricted by run-time tests (or, what are usually likely to be run-time
> tests anyway - it is possible for the compiler to statically resolve some
> of these if it stretches state-of-the-art compiler technology to the
> utmost
I think you're exxagerating here. SmallTalk did quite a bit of this even back
in 1980, and the MIT MacLisp compiler did a better job on some numeric codes
than the DEC Fortran compiler. We're not talking state of the art technology
here, unless you mean state of the art for over 10 years ago.
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: What is a type? (was Re: Fortran90 and Arrays) Message-ID: <id.2JWO.7W5@ferranti.com> Sender: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <ROCKWELL.92Mar21001252@socrates.umd.edu> <BEVAN.92Apr10180934@panda.cs.man.ac.uk> <1992Apr13.212346.335@newshost.lanl.gov> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:38:08 GMT Lines: 16