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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: jacob navia Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:26:32 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server 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> Reply-To: jacob@nospam.org NNTP-Posting-Host: NZX6gLV1Gih55zaBJc4BpA.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1216 comp.lang.c:9953 Date: 2008-07-18T22:26:32+02:00 List-Id: Gautier wrote: > Paul Hsieh: > >> The small memory footprint and VxWorks environment probably makes C a >> very attractive language for the NASA guys. If they used Ada, they >> would be slower, > > Oooh... This is a misconception that comes from the time of > non-optimizing compilers for PC's - around 20 years ago. At that time a > i++ was faster than a i:= i + 1, sure. But it was long long time ago. > Never heard of GCC ?... > _________________________________________________________ > Gautier's Ada programming -- http://sf.net/users/gdemont/ > > NB: For a direct answer, e-mail address on the Web site! Do you have any data to prove that ADA is faster than C? Or that has a smaller memory footprint? -- jacob navia jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr logiciels/informatique http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32