Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development?

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From	Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>
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Kaz Kylheku wrote this about the C++ compiler:

> In other words, a major compiler for probably
> the programming language with the most
> complicated syntax ever, eschews pretty much
> all that we have learned and accumulated about
> parsing between around 1968 and now.

Yikes!

They ignored the rich theory and vast set of algorithms, in favor of their own
proprietary code? Why would the C++ compiler developers do such a thing?

/Roger
[My guess is that they were too busy chopping down trees to sharpen their axes. -John]

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Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2022-01-16 14:36 +0000
  Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2022-01-16 22:13 +0100
  Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-01-17 07:14 -0800
  Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-01-19 21:33 +0000
  Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2022-01-22 03:01 +0000
    Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-01-22 10:43 +0000
      Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2022-01-22 21:38 +0000
    Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2022-01-22 12:50 +0000
      Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2022-01-22 21:22 +0000
      Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? Ian Lance Taylor <ianlancetaylor@gmail.com> - 2022-01-22 15:40 -0800
        Re: Are compiler developers light-years ahead of other software development? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2022-01-23 06:17 +0000

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