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: 103376,3ef3e78eacf6f938 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3? Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:48:12 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <4BA8BA91.4050905@cherrystonesoftware.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1269524883 17176 192.74.137.71 (25 Mar 2010 13:48:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:48:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:spLzjYfgDl3QXtO36qYuRDMn+/I= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:10735 Date: 2010-03-25T09:48:12-04:00 List-Id: Mike Sieweke writes: > Did anyone else actually read the paper? I skimmed it briefly. >...It says nothing > of substance about Pascal or Ada. Right. That's why it's a little strange that the person who posted it used the paper as evidence that one should not use Pascal in performance-critical applications. >...It only compares the > performance of C, C++, C#, and Java. There's only one > mention of Pascal as one of "many choices" in programming > languages. It would be interesting to translate some of the examples in the paper into Ada, and do some timing. (Sorry, I'm not volunteering -- too busy.) - Bob