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From: emery@Dr_No.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Re: c++ vs ada results
In-Reply-To: paul@u02.svl.cdc.com's message of 13 Jun 91 20:49:00 GMT
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Date: 14 Jun 91 10:17:24

Paul Kohlmiller says
>  Could you specify one or more machines that have an available ADA compiler
>that generates code that is as efficient as a C compiler for the same machine?

First try to construct an equivalent C program to an Ada program using
strong typing, constraint checks, etc.  Then you have something to
compare apples to apples...

				dave emery