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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6609c40f81b32989 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9bdec20bcc7f3687 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 101deb,e67cdb1dcad3c668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,gid8d3408f8c3,gidbda4de328f,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!news.weisnix.org!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:13:19 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use References: <4bba8bf1$0$56418$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbb2246$8$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4bbb5386$0$56422$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbdf5c6$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0a2e36$0$34205$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c0b234f$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <7plPn.6395$z%6.5719@edtnps83> In-Reply-To: <7plPn.6395$z%6.5719@edtnps83> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4c0ded8f$0$6759$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 08 Jun 2010 09:13:19 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 69faec03.newsspool3.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=`nOoL\gmNgc:i=48;n?Z:`McF=Q^Z^V3h4Fo<]lROoRa8kFejVh`JSe5SiiBKdP8j@b8QkOGa X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12430 comp.lang.fortran:26501 comp.lang.pl1:1533 Date: 2010-06-08T09:13:19+02:00 List-Id: On 6/8/10 8:27 AM, James J. Weinkam wrote: > Nevertheless, it remains true that the assembly language programmer who > knows what he is about has complete control over the binary code > generated, although I would venture to say that few, if any, assembly > language programmers think of what they are doing in those terms most of > the time. Would this control include control over pipelines, parallelism, and possibly translation of assembly instructions to microcode?