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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>... The convenience of compiler writers should not
>>be an issue. Whether something is possible at all, or only
>>possible with an NP complete computation, is admissible as an
>>argument, but not the compiler writer's mere convenience, where
>>that is gained at the expense of the compiler user.
>
>This fine idealistic viewpoint ignores the realities of the standards
>world.  A standard is useful only if it is widely accepted.  It cannot
>become widely accepted without support from compiler writers.  Trying
>to ram things down the compiler writers' throats with standards simply
>does not work; all it does is eliminate the usefulness of the standard.

I offer the Ada language as an absolute counterexample to your argument.

Kent, the man from xanth.
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