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Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching

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From George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
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Subject Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching
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Hi John,

>[Your moderator has only limited sympathy for arguments about the aesthetics of
>declarations, noting a strong pattern of people liking what they learned first.
>Personally, I think Fortran EQUIVALENCE and COMMON statements are totally
>intuituitive, but then I would. -John]

Understood.

It was meant more to be a question of what was being done in the
author's language.  I thought it needed a bit of background -
apologies if that went too far astray.

George

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Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching Michael Lehn <michael.lehn@uni-ulm.de> - 2026-08-25 08:05 +0200
  Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching Cóilín Nioclásín Glostéir <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-09-04 21:12 +0000
  Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de - 2026-09-05 07:02 +0000
    Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching Michael Lehn <michael.lehn@uni-ulm.de> - 2026-09-05 19:47 -0700
  Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-09-05 14:02 -0400
    Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching Michael Lehn <michael.lehn@uni-ulm.de> - 2026-09-05 19:50 -0700
  Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de - 2026-09-05 07:02 +0000
  Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-09-05 14:02 -0400
    Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-09-07 15:23 -0400
  Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching Michael Lehn <michael.lehn@me.com> - 2026-09-05 22:58 -0700

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