Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

["White Flame \(aka David Holz\)" <whiteflame52@y.a.h.o.o.com>]

"Kevin Lawton" <kepla@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:bcplc6$b5e$4@titan.btinternet.com...
> Cobol programmers respectively. The result is that the end-user, the
> consumer, has to provide much bigger, faster and expensive hardware at
their
> own cost. The software might be cheaper to produce (though looking at
> Micro$oft's prices you'd hardly think so !) but any advantage gained is
paid
> for dearly with the hardware required to run it.

??? You can get new, complete, multi-GHz systems for only a couple of
hundred dollars nowadays.  So while the requirements do go up, hardware
costs are continually plummetting.

> As an example, I've tried writing the same programs in both C and Java and
> then running them on representative machines.

1)  Did the JVM do JIT compiling?

2)  Are you as proficient in what speed-conscious decisions must be made in
Java to keep it fast as you are with keeping C code fast?

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