From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,382fcf8feeefdd50 X-Google-Thread: 1014db,382fcf8feeefdd50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1014db,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.news-service.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: CBFalconer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:00:06 -0400 Organization: Ched Research http://cbfalconer.home.att.net Message-ID: <48872B56.B89238E6@yahoo.com> References: <185ee7f9-9d4f-4f49-8dbe-6b623b8a8223@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <887fc0a7-0a5a-4d2e-a9ea-eb9e32d6a818@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <13a2f4f0-6ec1-4570-b6bf-1621cfb32db2@a2g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <4880f2ed$1_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1c421bda-5526-42e5-9a3f-96cb33bf86a0@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <48864CE9.BC825D67@yahoo.com> Reply-To: cbfalconer@maineline.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reader.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX1+5lbHmrUGM/0g8WXho3r6FvKYt5eTrvgzaLwjgEtIYCxEnVut8B6GLQeYD27kU5UIrlgisFTtcKE9+1DKgiwupiPVA031iaQ+PYR5v6IMeeTQ3Xk6riY72/at2ui4NfuFsecsDNT8RFQ== X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:33:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18w28Yk33ByD9dJjjZ+cYGivdlrCFt2sGQF3Q1nUCsfXQ== Cancel-Lock: sha1:hr64kxFT7hb/WwLmjV1cEFQQENo= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7016 comp.lang.c:70744 Date: 2008-07-23T09:00:06-04:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > CBFalconer a �crit : > >>> No, I was refering to optimizing I := I+1 into a single "Inc" >>> machine instruction. >> >> ISO Standard Pascal has no 'inc' instruction. Some non-standard >> abortions do. However those abortions also omit critical portions >> of the standard, such as f^ and the put and get functions. There >> is more. > > Please read again, I was refering to the Inc /machine instruction/ > that we had for our target at that time (an IRIS-80, a french > machine derived from XDS-Sigma7). Fair enough. No further discussion needed, since it was OT in the first place, and only caused by my righteous irritation :-) at the destruction of Pascal by bad approximations. -- [mail]: Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) [page]: Try the download section.