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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: small example, using complex variables in Ada
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On Thursday 10th June 2010, Randy Brukardt sent via Jacob Sparre
Andersen's netnews transfer protocol server:
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|""Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> wrote in message     |
|news:hur95a$3oh$1@tornado.tornevall.net...                                 |
|> Colin Paul Gloster wrote:                                                |
|>>                                                                         |
|>> Though there should be no difference, in reality compilers produce      |
|>> less slow machine code when looping down to zero instead of up from     |
|>> zero.                                                                   |
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|> The root of all evil.                                                    |
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|Goody, we're playing Jeopardy! I assume that was "Programming" for 200. :-)|
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|Q: What is premature optimization??                                        |
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|                            Randy."                                        |
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Jeffrey R. Carter and Randall L. Brukardt,

If any of you claims that you posted an unclear phrase which had not
been intended to be libelous which looks like you accused me of
inappropriately trying to apply premature optimization, then clarify
or be sued for libel. You had already known that I had made major
improvements in speed to simulations which I depend on in order to
stay alive this year (unfortunately the funding shall end in December
2010 no matter how well I do), and that speeding up just one per cent
results in a valuable improvement of hours.

Nasser M. Abbasi was not reverting to Ada as a complement to
Mathematica with the objective of producing slower software than
Mathematica.

Yours sincerely,
Colin Paul Gloster