Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal,net.lang.c Subject: Re: optimizing compilers vs. optimizing programmers Message-ID: <4922@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 13:49:02 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4922 Posted: Mon Jan 14 13:49:02 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 13:49:02 EST References: <285@harvard.ARPA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 In the end, VMS got written mostly in assembler anyway (unless they have gone and re-coded later version, which I doubt, but stranger things have happened). I have it from several sources that the reason this happened was because a certain prominent DEC individual decided that no compiler could write code as good as his assembler (ie it wouldn't be fast enough). So much for consistency... Laura Creighton utzoo!laura