From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,9adfbb907494972e X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,9adfbb907494972e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tim Behrendsen" Subject: Re: Ada to C/C++ translator needed Date: 1996/09/30 Message-ID: <01bbaf11$c03934e0$87ee6fce@timpent.a-sis.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 186305451 references: <32499FA0.4B5E@magic.fr> <01bbad6e$67743f20$32ee6fcf@timhome2> <52o1ve$gra@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <01bbaee1$00ee1c20$87ee6fce@timpent.a-sis.com> <52p7hl$kq4@solutions.solon.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: A-SIS mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Peter Seebach wrote in article <52p7hl$kq4@solutions.solon.com>... > In article <01bbaee1$00ee1c20$87ee6fce@timpent.a-sis.com>, > Tim Behrendsen 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)