On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 23:53:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:15:45PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1oi8wd/ruby_is_a_dying_language/ccs8yr8
It's interesting how compile times seem to always crop up in
discussions
about static vs. dynamic typing, even though it's really an
orthogonal
issue. I think D is a winner in this area (good job with the
fast
compile times, Walter!).
T
C and C++ are the ones to blame here.
Before they were ubiquitous, there were already compilers in the
Pascal family that were quite fast.
Turbo Pascal always compiled within a few seconds and it did
compile the desired module and all related dependencies.
However many young developers only know C and C++ as languages
with native compilers, hence the common fallacy compilers are
slow.
--
Paulo
