Re: development of C++ compiler

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:59:08 -0800, Phlip wrote:

Your remaining checklist indicates C, in its current role as "portable,
well-defined, assembler"...

C is certainly non-portable, in particular because it is ill-defined. It is
also a quite poor intermediate language if "assembler" meant in this role.

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