Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander

On 22 Jul, 09:39, Jean-Pierre Rosen <ro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Gautier a =E9crit :

<snip>

> > [this] comes from the time of
> > non-optimizing compilers for PC's - around 20 years ago. At that time
a
> > i++ was faster than a i:=3D i + 1, sure. But it was long long time
ago.
> > Never heard of GCC ?...
>
> When I started working on a (Pascal) compiler, this optimization was the
> first one I introduced in the compiler, because it was the easiest one
> to do. And it was 30 years ago...

Pascal has a ++ operator?

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Nick Keighley