JOHNSON@NUHUB.ACS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU.UUCP (02/23/87)
Well, live and learn. I seem to be full of errors these days. I
received this from the Pascal Project leader at DEC, John Reagen. I
corrects an error I made and confirms something I said.
Chris Johnson.
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Hi,
There is a small error in your recent INFO-VAX mailing about
Pascal vs. FORTRAN. VAX PASCAL does not us the VAX Common Code Generator.
It uses one of its own. The languages that share the VCG are:
Ada, PL/I, C, and SCAN. All the other have their own code generators.
Your other comment about both doing about the same thing is esentially
correct. There are some places where FORTRAN wins (COMPLEX, number-crunching)
and there are some wins for Pascal (records, pointers, loop optimizations).
-John Reagan, VAX PASCAL Project Leader