Re: Unsafe Optimizations (formerly Compiler Design in C...)

George Merriman -- CCA/NY <MERRIMAN@ccavax.camb.com>
Fri, 15 Jun 90 03:31:10 GMT

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From: George Merriman -- CCA/NY <MERRIMAN@ccavax.camb.com>
References: <1990Jun12.163959.2593@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1990Jun14.152612.2374@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 90 03:31:10 GMT
Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc.

> Allen Holub (holub@violet.berkeley.edu) writes:
>> I don't think much of the "compiler fascists" (if you will) who
>> insist on protecting me from myself.


I don't want the language to protect me from myself -- after all, I'm a
super-programmer and always write perfect code!:-) I need a fascist language
to protect me from all the other bozos (past, present and future) my boss or
client might hire to work on the code I am currently dealing with. (Of
course, they are probably looking for protection from ME!) It only takes one
creative anarchist to screw up an application forever, and there are enough
of them out there that every project I have ever been involved with has seen
at least one of these characters at one time or another.
--


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