Xref: utzoo comp.lang.fortran:1584 comp.lang.misc:2271 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!unido!infbs!neitzel From: neitzel@infbs.uucp (Martin Neitzel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Branch frequencies (was Assembly or ....) Message-ID: <1038@infbs.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 23:40:11 GMT References: <4113@enea.se> <11889@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@infbs.UUCP Reply-To: neitzel@infbs.UUCP (Martin Neitzel) Organization: TU Braunschweig,Informatik,West Germany Lines: 23 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 -- Martin Neitzel, Techn. Univ. Braunschweig, W.Germany BITNET/EARN: neitzel@dbsinf6.bitnet (mail via bitnet preferred) UUCP: neitzel@infbs.uucp (unido!infbs!neitzel)