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- From: ae@sei.cmu.edu (Arthur Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: compilers written in Ada (was: 20K expressions)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.192514.15412@sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 19:25:14 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: rlk@VisiCom.COM's message of 9 Sep 92 23:36:37 GMT
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- In my observation, any product used heavily by the folks who develop it
- has a lot of advantages. One of the biggest is the absence of rough
- edges. All little annoyances in usage come forcibly to the attention
- of those best positioned to fix them -- and they do so.
-
- As for compiling the compiler being a good test: No single test is
- adequate, and a vendor requires an extensive test suite of programs.
- However, to the extent that a compiler stresses corners of the
- performance envelope missed by other tests (and I think it does), self
- hosting is a useful contribution to quality.
-
- Art Evans
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