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igouy on April 5, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC...

> Compared to C++, Ada is a tiny lean fast sportscar of a language.

We can all see C++ program measurements faster than Ada program measurements in those archived "programming language benchmarks game" charts.

lproven on April 6, 2023 [–]

What I was getting at was the size of the language, not its compiled speed.

Does any single human understand all of C++ and use it all? Is it even possible any more? If they did, could anyone else read the code?

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