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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: 26 Mar 2010 15:54:03 GMT
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(Setting follow-ups back to the original cross-posting, since 
I don't read comp.lang.ada .... )

In article <Xns9D4482A264D8BWarrensBlatherings@188.40.43.245>,
Warren  <ve3wwg@gmail.com> wrote:
> balson expounded in news:4BA8BA91.4050905@cherrystonesoftware.com:
> 
> > Andrea Taverna wrote:
> >> Hi folks!
> > [snip]
> >> In the past I used C, but now I have decided to change language.
> >> I'm looking for a "better" one.

[ snip ]

> > IOW, stay away from the likes of Java, C#, Pascal. Unless you
> > have a 
> > very specific reason for going in that direction. Your performance
> > will suffer.
> > Jim
> 
> I don't think many people would be surprised by these results.
> After all Java, C# and Pascal (variants) are still largely 
> interpreted  languages, even if they use some sort of compiled 
> intermediate code.

It's my impression that most/all current implementations of Java
do "just-in-time" compiling (of the compiled intermediate code)
to native code, and if that's true (certainly true of some of
them), does the language really count as "interpreted"?  Just
sayin', maybe.

> But each "tool" has its own place in the toolbox.

Can't disagree with that, though!


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B. L. Massingill
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