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Subject: Re: Comparing productivity: LisP against C++ (was Re: Reference Counting)
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seurer@nordruth.rchland.ibm.com (Bill Seurer) writes:

>In article <19950102.025457.841098.NETNEWS@UICVM.UIC.EDU>, dhanley@matisse.eecs.uic.edu (David Hanley) writes:
>|> : Languages such as Pascal and Ada which do distinguish them are just as
>|> : efficient for those sort of operations.
>|> 
>|>         You are, quite simply, wrong.

>No, *YOU* are wrong.  Failing to distinguish between small integers and
>characters is a stupid thing in C and C++.  It is trivial to convert

    ok, saying that there's an efficiency difference is
    ridiculous (except maybe the efficiency of the compiler,
    but the fastest compiler i'm familiar with is a pascal
    one, so...), but uh... what's the big deal about "a char
    is a small integer."

    It's "the way it is" in C/C++, and i frankly don't see
    how it's much of a big deal in any circumstance.  i typically
    have more important things to worry about when coding.  it's
    like arguing over "a/3", "a div 3", and "$a/3": i like the
    first best, but really.... i've got work to do.


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