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From: Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada,   Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:04:46 +0100
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On 1 Jun 2021, Paul Rubin wrote
(in article <877djdfs8h.fsf@nightsong.com>):

> Bill Findlay<findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>  writes:
> > > > The 20KSLOC compiler ran on a 1.5MIPS machine.
> > > Yes, but 1) 20KSLOC per what unit of time,
>
> Ok, but that's maybe 5x slower than Turbo Pascal, which compiled 1000s
> of LOC per second on machines of that class.

Well that is not what emerged in the conversation I reported.
The details are vague now, the gist was that the 1977 compiler
on comparable machines was several times faster that Turbo.
I see no point in pursuing this further.

-- 
Bill Findlay