Re: [PLUG] Pascal?

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

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...


LDR
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