Leonard Rosenthol on Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:03:28 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Pascal?


At 2:54 PM -0400 7/4/02, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
What about Smalltalk programmers?

They are certainly more familiar with ObjC...


> Agreed, however in the old days compilers weren't as smart as
they are today...

In what old days? The real work with optimizing compilers recently (as in, in the last decade) has been predictive methods, loop unrolling, and other ridiculously complicated stuff.

Agreed, but those of us who have been working on computers since the 70's and 80's (or earlier!), didn't have those features and took avantage of the fact that a C compiler can be used as a high level assembler - in fact, that was part of it's original design!



> May not be possible if you
 a) don't have the source
 b) don't have the specs for the output files (.obj, .o, .a, whatever)
 c) etc.

Then go find a compiler where you can, in the case of a.

Because at the time, those compilers sucked rocks! And if you are generating commercial applications, you want commercial quality code.



In the case of b, how could you *possibly* not have the specs?

Proprietary compiler, proprietary formats. And in many cases, compilers don't even generate intermediate files...



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