From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 09:46:06 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <877djdfs8h.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <5afvagd0g4uajs1ji35v3lorkgb2kd56qu@4ax.com> <87wnrkf9pr.fsf@nightsong.com> <37c582bb-3012-4954-a26c-5d9614ac0c84n@googlegroups.com> <0001HW.2664183000DCDBDE700005E5438F@news.individual.net> <87k0nff07k.fsf@nightsong.com> <0001HW.2665B79F01080BFC700005E5438F@news.individual.net> <87fsy2febp.fsf@nightsong.com> <0001HW.2666503201136FD9700005E5438F@news.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1bbd9652005230ee90f94b8d950008c2"; logging-data="19016"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/yNtJryVjcVO7c1JR1NBUB" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7QuBzLynRiO6CNVXbwBRFV3S7w4= sha1:9SGfsAksyG1U6y6sT+SUeBAAZVE= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62083 List-Id: Bill Findlay 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.