Re: development of C++ compiler

From: "Phlip" <phlip2005@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:54:14 -0800

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.

C's ill-definitions are what allow wiggle room when porting it.

Otherwise, why is C the substrate below Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby, Squeak,
etc?

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