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From: Arne Vajhøj on 2 Feb 2010 19:40 On 02-02-2010 15:11, Antoninus Twink wrote: > On 31 Jan 2010 at 4:07, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> When I tried this, about six or seven years ago (with the original >>> intent of putting the program into production), it was 50-60 times >>> slower than C (admittedly for a heavily recursive application). >> >> That is not in any way typical. >> >> It is completely off the scale for unlikelihood. >> >> But if I remember correct from last time you gave the story, then you >> can not explain exactly what the code did. > > Richard Heathfield is a notorious comp.lang.c fantasist. > > It is obvious that he has never done any programming work in the real > world - no shop I've ever known would tolerate his truculent attitude > and his prissy refusal to step beyond a purely academic view of language > purity and get his hands dirty with pragmatic code that might actually > work. I don't recognize that description. He does not seem to have much faith in VM based runtimes. That does not exclude programming in the real world. Arne
From: Nick Keighley on 3 Feb 2010 04:12
On 3 Feb, 00:40, Arne Vajhøj <a...(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote: > On 02-02-2010 15:11, Antoninus Twink wrote: [...] > > Richard Heathfield is a notorious comp.lang.c fantasist. > > > It is obvious that he has never done any programming work in the real > > world - no shop I've ever known would tolerate his truculent attitude > > and his prissy refusal to step beyond a purely academic view of language > > purity and get his hands dirty with pragmatic code that might actually > > work. > > I don't recognize that description. > > He does not seem to have much faith in VM based runtimes. > > That does not exclude programming in the real world. twink's a troll with a problem with Richard Heathfield. |