Re: Array references cannot be made optimal

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From: Steven Ryan
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1990 20:22

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You may find this shocking, but some of us don't care if array references
can be made optimal--for the machine. How about array references which are
optimal for the programmer? Neither C nor Fortran do that as well as Algol
60 did, thirty years ago.

There are other considerations than grinding out the fastest possible object
code.
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...!uunet!ingr!apd!smryan                                       Steven Ryan
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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
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Subject: Re: Array references cannot be made optimal
Summary: So what?
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Date: 21 Nov 90 20:22:45 GMT
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