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: 103376,2a34b7ad6c6a0774 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Efficiency of code generated by Ada compilers Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:51:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net eKH8644Ex8r2x6hp/lmthQo51GnfNOxPuvwWh6vkluy5tOXDHp Cancel-Lock: sha1:ikRFaNVK72jVtz6idTnFvd1BPSU= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.23.0.091001 Thread-Topic: Efficiency of code generated by Ada compilers Thread-Index: Acs7wCT1fdHYkITZIEmA70ZZTCXifw== Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13285 Date: 2010-08-14T15:51:15+01:00 List-Id: On 14/08/2010 11:47, in article jvqc66t42m4ek5rkpj59ctu3r75fb4hln2@4ax.com, "Brian Drummond" wrote: > I was involved with the Linn Rekursiv processor (which I'm sure at least two > other group regulars remember) Indeed. Though David Harland's ideas on programming language design were about as far removed from the Ada philosophy as it is possible to get. > There was much talk then of "bridging the semantic gap" between high level > languages and the low level operations in hardware. It seems we have > subsequently bridged the semantic gap, by leaning to program in C... One of our subject's many self-inflicted tragedies (c.f. the apparently pervasive ignorance about the Burroughs architecture). -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk