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In article ... hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

   As to designing compilers, this is a massive operation, not to be done by
   one or two people.

Really?

Perhaps Herman has some notion of ``compiler'' that has more weight than I do.
I have written compilers on my little ownsome, and at least one of them was
done part-time at home, for fun. The latter isn't one that's ready for the wide
world to trample over -- it's part of a bootstrap -- but the design certainly
didn't need more than one person.

Unless, of course, you count the accumulated wisdom of the people whose books
and papers on compilers adorn my shelves and filing cabinet. But I don't think
that's what Herman meant.

[No, there are no clever optimisations in the compiler, and Herman wouldn't be
interested in the language -- it has stacks, and closures, and dynamic typing,
and you can't get close to the raw machine for speed.]

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