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

From: Marin David Condic (nobody_at_noplace.com)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:53:31 GMT

I agree. I do it all the time (and in Ada). My engine controls have to
react with very real, very hard deadlines and I'd better have a compiler
that squeezes out ever last instruction it possibly can. My point is
that *most* apps *don't* have that kind of requirement, so designers of
those types of apps shouldn't get wrapped around the axle over
evaluation of the relative speed of compilers and languages. In other
words if Ada's critics were correct that "Ada is slow..." (it isn't) it
would still be suitable for proabably 90% of the software development
done in the world.

MDC

Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote:
>
> I'm not arguing against discussing what else a language/compiler
> offers, just pointing out that for some applications, the need for
> speed is very real.
> 

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