[antlr-interest] philosophy about translation

[Emmanuel Lecharny]

Guys,

not that this is an interesting thread about pros/cons of
Java/C/C++/Basic/jBase/WarCraft/Whatever, but there are forums for this kind
of discussion, like comp.lang.<pick your favorite language>.

This is an antlr thread, remember ...

Thanks !

Emmanuel

On 11/7/06, Anthony W. Youngman <antlr at thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> Anthony W. Youngman - anthony at thewolery.demon.co.uk
>
>


-- 
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
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