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- From: "Dietmar Heidrich" <UKGV@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Strange wierdness in E-language!
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:04:15 +0100
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- From what I have read about E in the the newsgroups up to now, I get
- the strong impression that E is something that should have been
- released on April, 1st. A language that strictly evaluates expressions
- from left to right or requires variables to be written in lower case
- and all the other weird stuff I read should simply NOT BE USED AT ALL.
- Compiler speed is not as important as a correct transformation of
- source into target code or convenience in naming variables. People
- who need such things as ultimate compiling speed or other things
- should use assembler. By the way, you spend most of your programming
- time writing source text and NOT compiling ! Therefore, a fast and
- good editor is more important than compilation speed.
- Safety checks are also very useful.
- Nobody gains in compiling only for a few seconds and then browsing
- through the memory using any debugger for some hours to find an
- error that a sensible compiler would have prevented from the
- beginning.
-
- Dietmar Heidrich, Germany
-