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From: William Dale <william.dale.jr+adanews@lmco.com>
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Subject: Re: Why do so many companies use Apex?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:29:44 -0800
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OK, but what Apex does for you does not make up for the very high
learning curve imposed and the fact that most victms (users) go away
thinking Apex is Ada and all Ada compilers do things in these silly
ways. 

Corey Ashford wrote:
> 
> One of the reasons that Apex appears to be slower than other
> compilers is that it is actually doing more work for you, to
> save you time down the road.  Apex retains persistent compilation
> information about units that it can use later to determine which
> units exactly needs to be recompiled when a change is made to
> any one of them.  

Bill