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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/07/30
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Bob Cousins says

"That's complete nonsense! One of the design goals of Pascal was
efficient compilation. Every version of Borland Pascal I have used has
been far faster compiling than equivalent C compilers. Historically C
code has run a little faster than Pascal but I am willing to trade a
little run time speed for a better language.
"

The fact that Borland Pascal compiles faster than C says nothing about
the language -- Realia COBOL compiles faster than either of them, but
again that does not say that COBOL is more efficient to compile, just
that the compiler is faster!