Language progress? [partially OT]

[bearophile]

Paulo Pinto:

> I would say that whoever implemented the algorithms 
> in C is not as good as
> the one who did them in Pascal. Or did not use the proper compiler flags.

I don't know the answer, but I think both those hypothesis are not substantiated by facts, because in the Shootout site the C compiler flags are chosen carefully (they are chosen for speed), while the C programs are probably written a bit better than the Free Pascal ones (Free Pascal uses ObjectPascal, it's a language quite far from the original Pascals). Maybe the Free Pascal compiler is just better than GCC regarding static/stack memory usage.

Bye,
bearophile