From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement
Date: 1998/02/16
Date: 1998-02-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216123342.22587A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.887600858@merv
On 15 Feb 1998, Robert Dewar wrote:
> ... Robert's take on the overloading of "simple" deleted ...
>
> As for "hard to write a compiler for", Ada is no more difficult than
> any of these other languages. These days the really hard part of any compiler
> is doing a good job of optimizing the object code on modern
> architectures, and this is about the same effort for any language.
While this is not a field I know very well, I was under the impression
that it is in general easier to do a good job optimizing Ada than C or
C++, due to the restrictions on access types amongst others. Was I
mistaken?
Also, the C++ grammar is tricky, you could almost say that it has made
parsing a reasonable research topic again :-).
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-15 0:00 Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-18 0:00 ` vonhend
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Dan Moran
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-19 0:00 ` John English
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Luis Espinal
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Ada's complexity Steve Furlong
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Jon S Anthony
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Parsing Ada and C++ Steve Furlong
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement nabbasi
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` nabbasi
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1998-02-18 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
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