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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IIgs Unzip thing
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.012635.14869@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 91 01:26:35 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

[In response to this bit that I wrote]
>>Using compiled languages for time-critical code never makes sense unless the
>>compiler is unspeakably awesome and efficient.

>What a crock.  Practically ALL the time-critical code here is written in C
>or Fortran, and the compilers aren't all that great.

Well excuse me for living!! What system are you using that's so unspeakably
awesome you use cruddy compilers for time-critical code??

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu