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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander
Date: 18 Jul 2008 20:45:33 GMT
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In article <4880f2ed$1_6@news.bluewin.ch>,
Gautier  <gautier@fakeaddress.nil> wrote:

>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.

I'd have been very disappointed with a compiler that did that 20 years ago.

>Never heard of GCC ?...

Why yes, we were using it 20 years ago!

-- Richard
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