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- From: drw@euclid.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
- Newsgroups: comp.compilers
- Subject: Re: static estimation of conditional branches?
- Keywords: design
- Message-ID: <92-12-057@comp.compilers>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 04:41:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: comp.92-12-057
- References: <92-12-029@comp.compilers> <92-12-055@comp.compilers>
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- hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
- One should not design a language, or a compiler, so that a fool can use it
- "properly." In that case, it is quite likely that nobody can use it at a
- higher level than the fool. Design it for the genius first, and then put
- in the cautions, etc., for the fool.
-
- Perhaps your view is based on your field (numerical analysis). Numerical
- analysis tends to be done mostly by geniuses, because the fools quickly
- wash out. In the rest of the software world, geniuses are 1% or less of
- the population, because fools can get more-or-less useful work done. Read
- comp.lang.c if you want to know what the real world is like. Ugh!
-
- Dale
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