Re: Compilers, architecture, efficiency, and HR

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From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Thu, 02 May 1991 12:15

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According to hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin):
>Satisfysing my requests would require nothing of the sort.  I see no 
>reason why I should have to hire a compiler writer for each augmentation.

You're right, of course.

Nor can I see a reason why we should endure endless tirades about how
the all-singing all-dancing Herman Rubin Language Compiler will solve
the world's problems, when you STILL haven't written ...

  [wait for it]

     the SPECIFICATION.

Give us a spec, and we'll have something to discuss.  Why spend all
this time yammering about a hypothetical compiler, when that same
effort expended in spec-writing could produce a REAL IMPLEMENTATION?
-- 
Brand X Industries Sentient and Semi-Sentient Being Resources Department:
        Because Sometimes, "Human" Just Isn't Good Enough [tm]
     Chip Salzenberg         <chip@tct.com>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>

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Subject: Re: Compilers, architecture, efficiency, and HR
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