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From: mcconnel@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: are 'friend's really necessary ??
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Date: 22 Mar 90 17:39:21 GMT
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reg@ksr.UUCP says:
> There are classes of applications where OOT is wonderful.  User interface is
> one.  Discrete simulation is another.  But how about a globally-optimizing
> incremental compiler?  Or an operating system?

As it happens, the group I'm in is working on a globally optimizing
incremental compiler (for Smalltalk and written in Smalltalk).  We
have class hierarchies representing various kinds of flow nodes,
register transfers, machine instructions, etc.  OOT has served us
quite well in describing these objects.


	Carl McConnell
	Department of Computer Science
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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