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From: neitzel@infbs.uucp (Martin Neitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Branch frequencies (was Assembly or ....)
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Date: 1 Dec 88 23:40:11 GMT
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In article <11889@cup.portal.com> Paul L Schauble writes:
PLS>
PLS> The reason for this is that the designers of the compiler knew that they
PLS> would be fighting an uphill battle against entrenched assembly coders, and
PLS> that the language and compiler would only be accepted if it could generate
PLS> better code than the average hand coder.

Yes.  And a good occasion to point everbody to the ACM SIGHOPL
conference proceedings (History Of Programming Languages).  If
my memory serves me right, it was edited by Mr. Wexelblat and
published in 82 or 84 or around that time.

It's one of the finest books you can get.  The designers of many major
and `minor' languages report stories about the development of "their"
programming languages.  Read what J. Backus himself has to tell about
FORTRAN, Iverson about APL, Griswold about SNOBOL, P. Naur (or was
it L. v.d.Meulen?) about ALGOL68,...  Lots of fun reading!

							Martin
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