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Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA
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> > What performance advantage?? The DEC Vax Ada compiler generates tighter
> > code than the  Vax C compiler (no slouch)...

> This says more about the relative investment in the compilers than about
> the languages.  DEC has a history of being unenthusiastic about C; it shows.
> -- 

Well then if DEC is unenthusiastic about C the people responsible for unix
(B&B) must be somnabulistic since the VAX C compiler beats the pants
off of pcc.

David Albrecht