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From: paul@u02.svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller)
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jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:

>As with the "too many features" shibboleth, this common myth doesn't
>hold up under even rudimentary analysis of the facts. There are
>compilers available for a number of targets that produce code at
>least as dense and efficient as C/C++ compilers for the same target.
Jim,
  Could you specify one or more machines that have an available ADA compiler
that generates code that is as efficient as a C compiler for the same machine?
thnx
Paul Kohlmiller
CDC
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