Re: Using Prolog to Compile Things

hunk@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
2 Jun 1999 01:37:16 -0400

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From: hunk@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 2 Jun 1999 01:37:16 -0400
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Computing Services Division
References: 99-05-069 99-05-094
Keywords: prolog, comment

Actually, the entire question is being posed at the wrong level. It's
not a compiler you want written in Prolog, but the program that
generates the compiler! Because that's where the intelligence is
required.


Here, efficiency is irrelevant. It's not the efficiency of the
process that counts, but of the product made by the process.
[Well, it's not totally irrelevant. The process does have to finish
before the heat death of the universe to be of practical interest. -John]

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