From: "Tim Behrendsen" <tim@a-sis.com>
Subject: Re: Ada to C/C++ translator needed
Date: 1996/09/30
Date: 1996-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bbaf11$c03934e0$87ee6fce@timpent.a-sis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52p7hl$kq4@solutions.solon.com
Peter Seebach <seebs@solutions.solon.com> wrote in article
<52p7hl$kq4@solutions.solon.com>...
> In article <01bbaee1$00ee1c20$87ee6fce@timpent.a-sis.com>,
> Tim Behrendsen <tim@a-sis.com> wrote:
> >Your suggestion that comparing compilers on one platform for
> >one program tells you something significant is laughable at
> >best.
>
> It does, though. It gives you a boundary.
You mean a boundary in the sense that you have a baseline by
which to compare a compiler in order to determine if it's any
good or not? If that's what you mean, I agree; that's one way
it could be considered "significant".
> >This is not because of optimization; this is because of the
> >language and style in which projects are implemented. Now,
> >this is a significant debatable question. Comparing the output
> >of optimizers is completely worthless to the central question
> >of whether REAL WORLD projects can be implement efficiently in
^^^^^^ [change to "will be"]
> >a particular language or not.
>
> "can be" and "will be" are completely different questions.
Indeed. I agree "will be" is a better question to ask. In fact,
it's so much better that I hereby declare all my posts changed to
reflect the new wording. :-)
-- Tim Behrendsen (tim@a-sis.com)
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-25 0:00 Ada to C/C++ translator needed Emmanuel Champommier
1996-09-25 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-10-02 0:00 ` B|rje Norden
1996-10-04 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Erik Magnuson
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
[not found] ` <52feul$os2@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen [this message]
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Tanmoy Bhattacharya
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Tanmoy Bhattacharya
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-02 0:00 Simon Johnston
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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