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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
> Is Ada really harder to compile than Pascal?  I've always liked this
> article even though I never used Turbo Pascal:
> http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html

Actually the part I had in mind is in a different post:

  http://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html

It says:

  On one of those cheap, floppy-only, 8088 PC clones from the late
  1980s, the compilation speed of Turbo Pascal was already below the "it
  hardly matters" threshold. Incremental builds were in the second or
  two range. Full rebuilds were about as fast as saying the name of each
  file in the project aloud. And zero link time. Again, this was on an
  8MHz 8088. By the mid-1990s, Borland was citing build times of
  hundreds of thousands of lines of source per minute.

and goes on from there to explain why Turbo Pascal was so fast.