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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:45:53 +0200
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Paul Hsieh:

> The small memory footprint and VxWorks environment probably makes C a
> very attractive language for the NASA guys.  If they used Ada, they
> would be slower,

Oooh... This is a misconception that comes from the time of 
non-optimizing compilers for PC's - around 20 years ago. At that time a 
i++ was faster than a i:= i + 1, sure. But it was long long time ago. 
Never heard of GCC ?...
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