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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to
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Date: 1998/02/22
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vonhend@ibm.net writes:

> Actually, the VAX/VMS C compiler was one of the best in the business.
> It generated smaller and more efficient code than any other commercially
> available C compiler (with the exception of the GNU C compiler, when it
> came out.)

But it had idiosyncratic features -- specifically, the system header
files were additionally held in modules in a .TLB [text library], so
if you felt perverse you could use syntax like

  #include stdio

For some reason, people seemed to feel that because Digital had
introduced this [mis]feature you had to use it! What a pain when it
comes time to port!