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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: beauty of TMLPascal 1.0.3
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Date: 9 Jul 89 16:49:09 GMT
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In article <14298@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:

>     It is not uncommon for compilers to generate incorrect code.
>In fact, it is a fairly common thing for them to do.  I must admit,

	Excuse me????

	On what do you base that statement? Anything at all?
	
	I will agree that most compilers do have codegen bugs in them,
but I don't think that they're particularly common - at least,  not
in a commercially released product. In Lightspeed Pascal I can count
the number of codegen bugs on one hand, and they all occur in fairly
obscure circumstances...

>     Do you have to put up with this nonsense where you work?

	I have to put up with ALL KINDS of nonsense where I work. ;-)

		--Rich
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 Rich Siegel
 Staff Software Developer
 Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
 Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu
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 I classify myself as a real developer because my desk is hip-deep in
 assembly-language listings and I spend more than 50% of my time in TMON.

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