From VMS to UNIX
T.J.Teixeira
tjt at kobold.UUCP
Sat Oct 22 17:18:34 AEST 1983
On BLISS vs. C:
Now wait a cotton picken minute. How can you say that BLISS produces
better code than C. That is an entierely implementation dependant
thing contingient on what machine you are running on, which version of
the compiler you are using and what level of optimization you are
asking it to do.
-Ron
Fundamental characteristics of the language have an effect, too. The
presence of unrestricted GOTO's in C makes it *much* harder to
implement a really good (read "globally optimizing") C compiler than
an equivalent BLISS compiler. That's one of the main reasons BLISS
left them out.
John T. Wroclawski <JTW at mit-xx>:
Once the compiler is written, I don't care if it was easy to implement
or hard to implement. There is nothing in the C language that
*prevents* me from writing a compiler as good as the VAX/VMS Bliss
compiler.
--
Tom Teixeira, Massachusetts Computer Corporation. Littleton MA
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