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Myth: line noise syntax required for efficient machine code.
Teenagers believed this about C versus Pascal in the 1980's. "Stuff like while (* s++ = * d++); looks faster so it must be."
Or else, what do you mean by efficiency?
Cheaper software engineering life-cycle, end-to-end?
Fewer keystrokes?
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Myth: line noise syntax required for efficient machine code.
Teenagers believed this about C versus Pascal in the 1980's. "Stuff like while (* s++ = * d++); looks faster so it must be."
Or else, what do you mean by efficiency?
Cheaper software engineering life-cycle, end-to-end?
Fewer keystrokes?