Warp wrote:
>   Nothing more fake than claiming a language is about as fast as C, when
> in fact it's *compiled as C*, in the first place.

Nah. Being a high-level language that compiles down to C that's as fast as 
one might have written manually in C is pretty impressive.

Being *slower* than "native" C while compiling down to C is easy. Being as 
fast as C when compiling down to C is tough. Being faster than C is (I'd 
say) impossible if you actually have C as an intermediate language.

Otherwise, SQL is nothing more than fancy assembly language.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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