From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Elaboration_check For Instantiations
Date: 1997/10/30
Date: 1997-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Oct30.061225.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 345774b3.1434102@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net
In article <345774b3.1434102@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net>, tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) writes:
> Unless the compiler is buggy, the fact it won't allow something the
> programmer wrote is proof the programmer either did not understand the
> language or made a mistake writing it. So the compiler has
> demonstrated that it is, in fact, smarter than the programmer. ;)
The compiler is not smarter, it is just better at adapting to new
behavior when it is corrected for the next version.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-30 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-23 0:00 Elaboration_check For Instantiations Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
[not found] ` <345774b3.1434102@santaclara01.news.internex.net>
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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