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Re: [RFC] type safe trees
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:42:12PM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:
>
> > If we think we need a language with class hierarchies but
> > with a C-like syntax, our compiler already supports two
> > good choices.
>
> And one of them comes with built-in support for garbage collection.
I'm leery about trying to implement a compiler in a language with no
published standard. Or even any decent published textbooks.
--
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
- Brian W. Kernighan, in a plea for clear, straightforward code