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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c21db05aee31ddfc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!194.134.4.77.MISMATCH!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.vmunix.org!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Direct Quote from the RM Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:07:55 +0000 Organization: Pushface Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1195369674 25585 62.49.19.209 (18 Nov 2007 07:07:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:07:54 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7gSTF9pfRurd4r/eVMkCbuqee70= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18474 Date: 2007-11-18T07:07:55+00:00 List-Id: anon@anon.org (anon) writes: > 10 No language can avoid the problem of efficiency. Languages > that require over-elaborate compilers, or that lead to the > inefficient use of storage or execution time, force these > inefficiencies on all machines and on all programs. This is the only part of the text you quote that addresses the compilation environment. And what it says is, the design of the Ada language is such that it does not require over-elaborate compilers, and that (once compiled) a program doesn't have to be inefficient. But there's nothing there that says the compiler itself has to be efficient! of course inefficient compilers will be unpopular, but that's quite a different matter.