On 16-Feb-16 18:53, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Serguei TARASSOV wrote:
...
Sounds like the real-life programs don't use inner loops or don't
solve NP-complete problems :)
For info, my real-life examples are the application server and the DSL
script engine.
So any improvement of quality of FPC's generated code are welcome.
Anybody using a high-level language for real work would be advised to
understand the problem a bit better so that they didn't have to use your
sort of brute-force approach. And at that point, having something that
expresses higher-level algorithms and coding practices (threads, dynamic
arrays) becomes at least as important as brute force efficiency.
I think that the original example should be treated as the code that is
used to trigger a bug. It must be the simplest possible so the bug can
be identified and corrected.
... At which
point, pointing out that FPC doesn't have a STEP or BY clause in the FOR
statement would be far more useful criticism.
Depending on the problems that we want to solve, different language
capabilities become more or less important...
Paulo Costa
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