From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Language Efficiency
Date: 1995/04/06
Date: 1995-04-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1995Apr6.095816.9598@eisner.decus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3lvru0$bv5@mars.earthlink.net
In article <3lvru0$bv5@mars.earthlink.net>, kleidner@earthlink.net (Ken Leidner) writes:
> I think that a "good" programmer in a given language has more to do with it
> than what the language is, unless the language just can't support the
> problem at all. An understanding of what the compiler is going to do has a
> lot to do with what the code comming out of the back side looks like.
Unfortunately that is true for a lot of compilers, but if a
programmer actually writes a high level language program (as
distinguished from writing a low level language program with
a high level language compiler), a good optimizing compiler
should be able to make up for any lack of knowledge which
the programmer has about compiler behaviour.
Not to pick on Fortran, but just to pick on Fortran programmers :-),
it has been said that someone with 20 years of experience just
programming Fortran can readily adapt to _any_ computer language
and write working programs that still look like Fortran.
Larry Kilgallen
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1995-04-02 0:00 Language Efficiency Robert C. Bethel
1995-04-04 0:00 ` Harold P Zbiegien
1995-04-04 0:00 ` Kennel
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Ray Toal
1995-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Kennel
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` Multiple dispatch (was Re: C++ not OOP?) Robert I. Eachus
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` Language Efficiency Paul Graham
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` C++ not OOP? (Was: " Fernando Mato Mira
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Curtis Bass
1995-04-19 0:00 ` David Weller
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Curtis Bass
1995-04-20 0:00 ` David Weller
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Curtis Bass
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Fernando Mato Mira
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Ed Osinski
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Curtis Bass
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Matt Austern
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Matt Austern
1995-04-22 0:00 ` David Weller
1995-04-22 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1995-04-22 0:00 ` OOAD courses by Object Mentor cjames
1995-04-21 0:00 ` C++ not OOP? (Was: Language Efficiency Ed Osinski
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Curtis Bass
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Curtis Bass
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1995-04-19 0:00 ` Multiple dispatch (was Re: C++ not OOP?) Fernando Mato Mira
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1995-04-21 0:00 ` C++ not OOP? (Was: Language Efficiency James McKim
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1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Curtis Bass
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-22 0:00 ` Robert Martin
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1995-04-21 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Curtis Bass
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Harley Davis
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1995-04-20 0:00 ` ron house
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Curtis Bass
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Multiple dispatch (was Re: C++ not OOP?) Robert I. Eachus
1995-04-21 0:00 ` C++ not OOP? (Was: Language Efficiency Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Fernando Mato Mira
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Erik Naggum
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1995-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1995-04-21 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1995-04-22 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1995-04-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-20 0:00 ` Matt Austern
1995-04-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1995-04-04 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Mike Wilson
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1995-04-05 0:00 ` David Weller
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Lawrence Free/ A.F. Software Services
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Ken Leidner
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
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