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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/03/18
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Date: 1996-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4ia41k$e04@solutions.solon.com>, seebs@solutions.solon.com
(Peter Seebach) writes: 

|> My general strategy is to just rebuild everything after any significant
|> change.  CPU time is cheap during the build process.  I have more processor
|> time than hair.

Ada would reject this comparison as a type mismatch.  C apparently
silently promotes both processor time and hair to unsigned long.

;-)

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Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com