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Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander
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Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 22 Jul, 09:39, Jean-Pierre Rosen <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
>> Gautier a écrit :
>
> <snip>
>
>> > [this] 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 ?...
>>
>> When I started working on a (Pascal) compiler, this optimization was the
>> first one I introduced in the compiler, because it was the easiest one
>> to do. And it was 30 years ago...
>
> Pascal has a ++ operator?

It was probably added as lesson 2 in an under graduate compiler course.