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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:40:59 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 29, 7:48=C2=A0pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> fft1976 <fft1...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > =C2=A0 Where'd you get that idea?
> >http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=3Dall=E2=8C=A9=
=3Dgna...
>
> Given that Ada is such a verbose language, the generally smaller
> source sizes of the Ada programs suggests that they weren't optimized
> very carefully. =C2=A0I know that some C, Java, and functional language
> users treat the shootouts fairly competitively and tune their code
> carefully, but I don't know if the Ada users are the same way. =C2=A0Ada
> is unfortunately kind of a niche language these days.

This is a hypotheses you are entertaining, right? Or did you notice
anything "suboptimal" in the Ada code?