[antlr-interest] philosophy about translation

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <20061106200601.0B5989C2 at mail.intersystems.com>, Jim Idle 
<jimi at intersystems.com> writes
>From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Anthony W. Youngman
>Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 1:22 AM
>
>
>> And I've also used a version of DATABASIC where some bright spark
>> rewrote the system primitives in C. Blech!!!! the number of times I've
>> seen people scream because they got bitten by subtle bugs ...
>
>
>As it seems somewhat likely that you are in fact talking at least in 
>part about my own work, I feel somewhat qualified to comment:

Likely? I'm not sure - did you write a chunk of UniVerse? I always 
associate you with jBASE.

Mind you, I don't see what else the "bright spark" could have done. I 
think the Prime CPUs had BCD instructions, so didn't have all the "wide 
0" problems of UV.

I just don't remember PI having anywhere near the number problems that 
UV seems to have.

Cheers,
Wol
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Anthony W. Youngman - anthony at thewolery.demon.co.uk