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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,3ef3e78eacf6f938,start X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: cbcurl Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3? Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <7a0c7a19-5d83-4cc6-be68-95ebf41533e7@t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com> References: Xns9D4482A264D8BWarrensBlatherings@188.40.43.245 NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.9.46.158 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1269370646 19873 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2010 18:57:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.9.46.158; posting-account=1kAdiAoAAACScDXlbH_mjrkHc4SnGdfs User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:10678 Date: 2010-03-23T11:57:25-07:00 List-Id: On Mar 23, 12:50=A0pm, Warren wrote: > I don't think many people would be surprised by these results. > After all Java, C# and Pascal (variants) are still largely > interpreted =A0languages, even if they use some sort of compiled > intermediate code. Really? AFAIK, most Java and C# implementations, JIT-compile to machine code and are *not* interpreted, and since when was Pascal ever an interpreted language (perhaps you were thinking of BASIC)? - C