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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: machine generated code and chatty compilers
Keywords: machine generated C code
Message-ID: <1990Jan6.081657.4180@twwells.com>
Date: 6 Jan 90 08:16:57 GMT
References: <1471@mdbs.UUCP> <2540@netxcom.DHL.COM>
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In article <2540@netxcom.DHL.COM> ewiles@netxdev.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes:
: 1)    If it's a mistake for a human to do it, then it's a mistake for a
:       program to do it.

Human generated code generally must be maintained by a human;
machine generated code is generally not maintained at all. There
is a large class of practices which might be mistakes solely
because they make maintenance harder. If you are not going to
maintain the code, there is no purpose in avoiding those
practices. For machine generated code, those are not mistakes.

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