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[Paulo Pinto]

Hi,

it seems I have to excuse myself. I could not find anything
from Adele Goldberg.

So my statement is false. Most likely I ended up confusing
Fran Allen's interview in Coders at Work, with some nonsense
in my head.

Still, I leave here a few links I manage to find from Fran Allen.

Some remarks about bad languages on the page 27
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/witexhibit/pdf/allen_history.pdf

Complaint about C on slide 23
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/witexhibit/pdf/allen_history.pdf

Another remark about C
http://www.windley.com/archives/2008/02/fran_allen_compilers_and_parallel_computing_systems.shtml

A video recorded at Purdue University, she also talks about C on minute 51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si3ZW3nI6oA

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Paulo

Am 07.05.2012 10:41, schrieb Jens Mueller:
> Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Monday, 7 May 2012 at 07:26:44 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
>>> Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>> AST/symbol table manipulation is way faster than reparsing code.
>>>>
>>>> People keep talking about D and Go compilation speed, while I
>>>> was already
>>>> enjoying such compile times back in 1990 with Turbo Pascal in
>>>> computers much
>>>> less powerfull than my laptop.
>>>>
>>>> But C and C++ with their 70's compiler technology, somehow won
>>>> the
>>>> market share,
>>>> and then people started complaining about compilation speeds.
>>>>
>>>> Adele Golberg, once wrote a paper telling how C made the
>>>> compiler technology
>>>> regress several decades.
>>>
>>> Do you happen to remember to exact title of that paper?
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Jens
>>
>> I'll try to find it, as I don't recall the title.
>>
>> I just remember that it made some remarks how primitive C was in
>> regard
>> to Algol toolchains.
>
> Many thanks.
> I couldn't find it myself and I'm interested because Fran Allen said
> something similar in Coders at Work.
> I didn't understand what she meant. Andrei suggested that it is mostly
> (only?) about overlapping pointers to memory. I'm just curious.
>
> Jens