Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: do c coders consider themselves as an 'elite'? Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 08:48:30 +1300 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <6158c4f5-10e4-4bce-8a8f-ca838b4c878f@googlegroups.com> <8980df90-f20d-49c0-afb8-3c52f1d22c3f@googlegroups.com> <54aaa766.16880562@news.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net dwx6hSDcN+QfXuLg3X2WVw3Ose8zb4zEnbhp+1qC4q7yA3NYBb Cancel-Lock: sha1:6ahkZbSaPyM0XQBlC4ZpfOZcUnw= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS i86pc; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <54aaa766.16880562@news.xs4all.nl> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:55939 Richard Bos wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: > >> BartC wrote: >>> On 30/12/2014 17:50, Stefan Ram wrote: > >>>> C is the fastest language on the »language shootout« site. >>> >>> /One/ of the fastest, with C++ and Fortran usually, but sometimes >>> another such as Ada or Java takes the top spot, or is not far behind. >> >> Lets not forget that C can't be faster than C++, the latter has the same >> (as well as extras) bag of tricks available. > > Let's not forget that C++ can't be faster than C, the former has to take > the programmer's use of the extra bags of tricks into account. No, no does not. You don't pay for tricks you don't use. -- Ian Collins