Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!uflorida!screamer!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Compilers, architecture, efficiency, and HR Message-ID: <282002D1.EA1@tct.com> Date: 2 May 91 12:15:12 GMT References: <1991Apr29.155945.29907@rice.edu> <41279@genrad.UUCP> <11713@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 21 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 ,