I love "religious wars" over languages and algorithms!!!

grin

Warmest regards,
John

"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:47:55 -0700, "Joel Kolstad"
wrote:

- C produces the fastest programs

There is some truth to this, perhaps if only because so much more work (as
far
as I can tell) has been done on C optimiziers than for other languages.
Perhaps a better statement would be, "With novice programmers, C tends to
produce the fastest programs."

Hi Joel,

I skipped this groaner the first time through. You could program in
almost any language to the same speed of performance if you simply
focused on the 5% bottleneck and coded it in assembler. Nearly every
"optimizer" consists of saving a lazy programmer's bacon when they
sloppily write poor control structures and assignment statements. It
should be called a de-babelizer.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC