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 >
