Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
From: | marti@inf.ethz.ch |
References: | <1990Jun12.163959.2593@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> |
Date: | Thu, 14 Jun 90 15:26:12 GMT |
Organization: | Compilers Central |
Keywords: | compiler design, C, unsafe optimizations |
Allen Holub (holub@violet.berkeley.edu) writes:
> If you don't like [the philosophy that programmers know what they
> are doing], there are scores of safer (slower, less-powerful)
> languages that will hold you hand and not let you do something stupid.
I'm curious just exactly what a slow (or fast) language is.
Or a more or less powerful language, for that matter.
I thought that speed was a matter of a particular *implementation*
of a language. But then what do I know ...
> I don't think much of the "compiler fascists" (if you will) who
> insist on protecting me from myself.
That's fine. The only problem is that, as a consequence, your
programs might make about as much sense as your comments above.
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