Re: Admiral Tuttle (Should be silent ad for Oracle)

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In <9307090525.aa28379@dsc.blm.gov> cjames@DSC.BLM.GOV (Colin James 0621) write
s:


>  
>The fact that David Guaspari does not post the source of the alleged
>transcript is on its face subterfuge in my opinion.
>  
>The email path of the message is apparently from "oracorp.com", and
>Oracle has a lot invested in parallel processing to speed up the
>kludge performance of an interpreted query language.
>  
>If the message is authentic, then the chief scientist mentioned has
>most certainly misinformed the Admiral.  What is said about Ada-9X
>features of C++ or C on multiple processors is mistaken.
>The extent of the misinformation about C++, for example, has now
>infiltrated AT&T's C courses where it is now taught that C++ IS a
>compiler (it's a precompiler that churns out C code with no regard
>to the C compiler backend) 

Uh, define 'compiler' for me?  By this definition, a lot of the old C
compilers aren't compilers, either.  They're 'pre-assemblers' that
ch8rn out assembly code with no regard to the assembler backend.

>and that C++ makes faster running code
>than C (it does not because anything done in C++ can be programmed
>to run faster in C).  

I'd want to see the original statement on this one.  It sounds rather
fishy on its face, which leaves me wondering in just what context it
got said.

>Also the inference that the Ada Mandate is to
>be abolished or lifted is not in keeping with other higher brass at
>the Pentagon.  Ask Ralph Crafts about that one (no flames Greg).

Pity (IMHO).

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