on Wed, 6 Aug
2003 23:35:09 PDT7
> "You can not write the complete system without having some
> intermediate steps. What I say is write the code that gives
> the best return. In this case the front end is where you gain
> the productivity. You get almost nothing trying to change the
> compiler. ..."
>
> I understand you're speaking in relative terms here, but the
> "almost nothing" you refer to here is fairly significant.
Here we disagree. I don't care what you do to a compiler you are not going to
increase a programmers productivity by much. All the same issues that you
bring up about writting code are still there.
> Personally at the moment I'm leaning to writing back end,
> editor (middle), and front end using VisualAge PL/I and DB2.
> Meanwhile I'm still in the process of preparing material for the
> device driver presentation at the next meeting, which is just a
> little over a week away.
However you do it it will need to be rewritten in the new language at some
point.
> Right now I'm going to bed.
It does seem to be getting that time.
Goodnight.
--
Robert Blair
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