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From: merriman@ccavax.camb.com
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: C basher!
Message-ID: <32889.27026cba@ccavax.camb.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 01:18:50 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.235216.16296@eng.umd.edu>
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In article <1990Sep13.235216.16296@eng.umd.edu>, rfink@eng.umd.edu (Russell A. Fink) writes:
>>C, for most tasks, is either worse than - or
>>break-even - compared to Fortran.  For the very few things that C does
>>better than Fortran, Modula 2 or Pascal are _much_ better than C.
> 
> You want to write a recursive descent parser, nay, an image decompression,
> wait, an operating system utility, hold on, an X windows application in
> Pascal? And have it execute by the time your pizza arrives? From
> Domino's in SIBERIA? 

[much drivel deleted]

> 
> C KICKS BUTT!!!!!

I can assure you, from experience based on actual measurement, that this does
not hold in all environments or with all language implementations.