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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Success: Ada versus C
Date: 1997/06/07
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Date: 1997-06-07T00:00:00+00:00
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Dale says

<< There is a "Purity" emphasis to the language that leaves you
   (or at least me) fearing that it "CAN'T" be fast. For instance,
   the whole discussion of copying IN and OUT the parameter list
   leaves a taste of poor performance. Read further and you see
>>

What are you saying here? That call by reference is preferable from an
efficiency point of view to call by value return for scalars? Surely
not (most Fortran compilers also pass scalars by value).