Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!benk From: benk@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <1456@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-May-84 00:22:12 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1456 Posted: Sat May 26 00:22:12 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 07:35:32 EDT Lines: 8 #R:cepu:-25900:inmet:4700016:177600:330 inmet!benk May 24 16:54:00 1984 And do you know why it generated such good code ? It had to. Back in those days compilers were looked upon with great suspicion. The only way compilers could gain any kind of acceptance among the "user community" was to produce code that was as good - or nearly as good as that written by crack asembly language hackers.