From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,382fcf8feeefdd50 X-Google-Thread: 1014db,382fcf8feeefdd50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1014db,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!exabot.com!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:40:38 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <185ee7f9-9d4f-4f49-8dbe-6b623b8a8223@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <887fc0a7-0a5a-4d2e-a9ea-eb9e32d6a818@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <13a2f4f0-6ec1-4570-b6bf-1621cfb32db2@a2g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <4880f2ed$1_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1c421bda-5526-42e5-9a3f-96cb33bf86a0@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <48864CE9.BC825D67@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1216799497 20800 195.25.228.57 (23 Jul 2008 07:51:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:51:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <48864CE9.BC825D67@yahoo.com> Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7004 comp.lang.c:70726 Date: 2008-07-23T10:40:38+02:00 List-Id: CBFalconer a �crit : >> No, I was refering to optimizing I := I+1 into a single "Inc" >> machine instruction. > > ISO Standard Pascal has no 'inc' instruction. Some non-standard > abortions do. However those abortions also omit critical portions > of the standard, such as f^ and the put and get functions. There > is more. > Please read again, I was refering to the Inc /machine instruction/ that we had for our target at that time (an IRIS-80, a french machine derived from XDS-Sigma7). -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr