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From: maloff@calgary.UUCP (Sheldon Maloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shareware. (and forking over the dough....)
Message-ID: <1665@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 06:08:04 GMT
References: <608@myrias.UUCP> <1849@hubcap.UUCP>
Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.
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In article <1849@hubcap.UUCP>, disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger) writes:
> From article <608@myrias.UUCP>, by cg@myrias.UUCP (Chris Gray):
> > Oh yes, there is a new version of the Draco compiler coming. I'm busily
> > improving the code quality. It now has a peephole optimizer, register
> > variables, "remembering", etc. With the equivalent program (in terms of
> > size of integers, registerization, etc.) the Draco version of the standard
> > Sieve of Eratosthenes benchmark is slightly faster than the Lattice 4.0
> > version (about 1 second out of 33 for a 100 iteration run). I won't know
> > about total object size until I recompile the libraries so that not so much
> > is included, which I won't do until the compiler itself is stabler.
> > 
> I have not sent in a contribution for Draco, so feel free to ignore this
> reply, but I'd like to supply some measure of encouragement to continue

I haven't either, but I've got reasons...

> I'd almost like to suggest that you make a commercial product out of
> Draco II, but I suspect that you wouldn't have the time to do so.  A

As a broke student who just graduated I be glad if it stayed PD for a while,
but, PD or commercial, we learned a little bit in our computer courses,
very few people enjoy typing words backwards.  Thats my beef, I
don't like typing corp, or tnemmoc, or fi, or fidne, or ...
I'd much rather type endproc, or endcomment, or endif.  If you could
change the language specs to include *READABLE* terminations, just then
I might think Draco to be serious.  Unfortunately as it stands, I won't
use any language that forces me to learn how to spell backwards.

Perhaps if I learned the alphabet backwards, that would help :-)

> > -- 
> > Chris Gray		Myrias Research, Edmonton	+1 403 428 1616
> > 	{uunet!mnetor,ubc-vision,watmath,vax135}!alberta!myrias!cg
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gary Heffelfinger   ---   Employed by, but not the mouthpiece of 
>                           Clemson University.
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