On 12/19/05, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C has three really strong points: > > - portability. It's one of the most wide-spread and portable > compiled languages that I know of.
I beg your pardon? If I want to store 128 bits of information, and access the 8 most significant bits, what portable data type would I use? :) The only way C is even remotely portable is with 30 years of #include and typedef machinery, and POSIX, and many other standards. > - speed. Most languages with the same level of portability as C that > I know of are interpreted. They will probably never get to the > level of speed you can get with C. The old joke is that C combines the speed and power of assembly language with the portability of assembly language. Ocaml can outperform C in some cases. Java is within an order of magnitude--------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]