Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!rmi!wsiebeck
From: wsiebeck@rmi.UUCP (Wolfgang Siebeck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: How to make Berkeley Pascal explode.
Message-ID: <916@rmi.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 20:36:51 GMT
References: <5530@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: wsiebeck@rmi.UUCP (Wolfgang Siebeck)
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Keywords: nested expressions

In this article Daniel J. Salomon writes:
: 
  [--]
: Running the version of Berkeley Pascal that came with 4.3 BSD on a
: Microvax II, it took 420 CPU seconds to compile this program.  Adding
: one more level of parentheses doubles the compile time.  Here is the
: program:
  [- 9 lines of Pascal source deleted -]

I tried TURBO-Pascal V 4.0 on your program. The test was run on a
Bullet-286ii, operating @ 7.7 MHz.


Turbo Pascal  Version 4.0  Copyright (c) 1987 Borland International
NEST.PAS(9)
9 lines, 0.1 seconds, 2320 bytes code, 591 bytes data.
	 ===========

The output of the program is:

-57

The resulting executable file has 2384 bytes.

Well, what should I say??