Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!bionet!synoptics!unix!garth!smryan From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Array references cannot be made optimal Summary: So what? Message-ID: <166@garth.UUCP> Date: 21 Nov 90 20:22:45 GMT References: <23904:Nov905:22:5290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <11839@life.ai.mit.edu> <3975:Nov1323:25:4390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <17583@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA Lines: 10 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. -- ...!uunet!ingr!apd!smryan Steven Ryan ...!{apple|pyramid}!garth!smryan 2400 Geng Road, Palo Alto, CA