Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language)

From: Preben Randhol (randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news_at_pvv.org)
Date: 02/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:54:29 +0000 (UTC)

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On 2004-02-12, Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
>
> Too many people spend too much time agonizing over "Compiler Efficiency"
> - usually without any real scientific data to back up their perceptions
> of what is fast and what is slow - and most of the time it just plain
> doesn't matter. I'd bet that if we took most of the applications that
> people use on a daily basis and inserted random delay statements
> throughout them to double the amount of CPU cycles they use, nobody
> would notice any difference in how they got their job done.

Yes. It is like debating which car is best and safest by how far the
speedometer goes and not caring if it has a seat belt or not. C/C++ do
not have seat belts. 

-- 
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
 language."

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