Re: development of C++ compiler

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:54:14 -0800, Phlip wrote:

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?

I am not sure if all of them indeed use C as an intermediate code, but I
don't care. Anyway, if some of them do use C then certainly not because of
C's technical merits. The reason could be same why Windows runs on each 9
of 10 boxes...

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