Lisp to C conversion

[zben at umd5.UUCP]

In article <628 at ttrdc.UUCP> levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>In article <10200028 at ada-uts.UUCP>, richw at ada-uts.UUCP writes:
>>That is, you tell the compiler to optimize your pi-calculating program
>>and it spews out "3.14159..."
>That would be a marvel of "artificial intelligence" -- an optimizer that
>can recognize algorithms.  Imagine--it would replace your bubble sorts
>with Shell sorts (or better) ...

If you were writing in Cobol, you would just say "sort", and the compiler
would probably automagically include in a 90K word (thats 360K byte) vendor-
supplied polyphase sort merge that automagically goes to N magnetic tape
drives when the number of records goes above 10 million.... :-)

Don't laugh - my dinosaur actually does this.  Now if it only had a 
C compiler... (sigh)
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