GSOC Linker project

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Mon May 7 23:17:43 PDT 2012


Oops, copy/paste error. :(

I'll check it, when I get back home.

--
Paulo

"Andre Tampubolon"  wrote in message news:joa0lq$1t2k$1 at digitalmars.com...

Interesting reading.
I took a look at page 23, and didn't find the mention of C.
Maybe I didn't read carefully?

On 5/8/2012 3:34 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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
>
> -- 
> 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
> 


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