Jim Balson expounded in news:4BA8FD54.8020200@cherrystonesoftware.com:

> J-P. Rosen wrote:
>> balson a écrit :
>>>      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.
>>>
>> I don't see why you put Pascal in the same basket. Pascal is not part
>> of the benchmark, therefore there is no evidence for what you say,
>> and Pascal does not require an interpreter or semi-interpreter.
> 
> I included Pascal because once you get up into languages that do
> bounds checking, performance will degrade. ...

Leave out bounds checking, and quality will degrade.

Warren