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Re: What is a regression?


On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 03:05 -0400, David Fang wrote:
> > I still think that is too strong a position. A good fraction
> > of compiler time is spent bugging out user code.. one could
> > even say the job of a compiler is not generating machine code,
> > but telling programmers they're idiots :)
> 
> Every compiler version I've tried has been telling me this for years. 
> When can we expect some *positive* feedback from compilers? 
> "Congratulations, your code is less of a spaghetti-mess than it was last 
> revision, keep up the good work."  I smell a request for enhancement...

So you and your compiler are off to a co-dependency workshop? <g>

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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
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