Re: "Ada Bashing" article in Federal Computer Week

[smithrd@inteloa.intel.com (Randy D. Smith)]

In article <521@marvin.cme-durer.ARPA> leake@cme-durer.ARPA (Stephe Leake) writes:
>I have done a study (funded by NASA for the Space Station) comparing
>Ada and C on Suns and microVAXes. 
>...
>DEC Ada 1.4 was _Faster_ (by about 25%) than DEC C 2.3 (Hip Hip Hooray!!!)
                                                         ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
>	(honesty forces me to admit that some of the speed gain came
         ???????
>from using single precision - but how do you get C to use single precision?)
...
>I am interested in publishing this work - can anyone recommend an
>appropriate journal?
>
>Anyone else have similar data? Its time us Ada users spoke up.
>-- 
>NAME:   Stephe Leake                    TELE: (301) 975-3431
>USMAIL: National Bureau of Standards    ARPA: leake@cme-durer.arpa

Might I suggest "The Journal of Skewed Results"??!?  You might call it,
"I Found What I Was Looking For"!!?!   :-)

Seriously now, I would like to believe you, but the fact that you had
such an obvious bias would make it difficult for me to accept your study
as objective.  Perhaps you'd like to provide us a little more detail on
your method for determining which code to use for your comparison, and
which to throw out.  Hmmmm, a quick check of Webster's confirms that this
appears to meet the definition of propaganda.  Oh well....
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