Re: New release of the Dynace OO extension to C
On 19 Jul., 14:55, jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org> wrote:
Juha Nieminen wrote:
BGB / cr88192 wrote:
yet, it does not take long to discover that this "simplicity" to Engli=
sh is
of almost no use to machines.
Exactly why should the average programmer care how difficult it is =
to
write a compiler for a certain programming language? That's the headach=
e
of the compiler writers, not the average programmer. The compiler exist=
s
to assist the programmer and make his life easier, not the other way ar=
ound.
There may be certain situations where the complexity of the compile=
r
and the machine code it creates can be a burden, but you'll have to
admit that's a really small niche market. To the majority of programmer=
s
that's completely irrelevant.
This point of view abstracts from the reality as it is in the real world.
Ideally yes, compilers are bug free.
Practically no, compilers are NOT bug free.
Look at the thread "Books for advanced C++ debugging". There, I ask for
literature about debugging C++ code bases. The unanimous answer was that
there isn't any actually. A deep search both in google and in Amazon.com
yields only beginners books.
[snip]
The irony of that statement is that the problem you had in the other
thread was purely a C problem; nothing in your problem was C++
related.
/Peter