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- From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:21:48 GMT
- Subject: Re: languages which allow the introduction of new operators
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- In-Reply-To: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:58:43 GMT
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- In article ... hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
-
- As to designing compilers, this is a massive operation, not to be done by
- one or two people.
-
- Really?
-
- Perhaps Herman has some notion of ``compiler'' that has more weight than I do.
- I have written compilers on my little ownsome, and at least one of them was
- done part-time at home, for fun. The latter isn't one that's ready for the wide
- world to trample over -- it's part of a bootstrap -- but the design certainly
- didn't need more than one person.
-
- Unless, of course, you count the accumulated wisdom of the people whose books
- and papers on compilers adorn my shelves and filing cabinet. But I don't think
- that's what Herman meant.
-
- [No, there are no clever optimisations in the compiler, and Herman wouldn't be
- interested in the language -- it has stacks, and closures, and dynamic typing,
- and you can't get close to the raw machine for speed.]
-
- --
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- Regards, | Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, | MIT
- Kers. | although they should have sufficiently good programming | job
- | taste to not consider this an achievement. | ad.
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