From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Building a compiler (was: Fixed point multiplication ambiguity)
Date: 1999/02/03
Date: 1999-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <799o4r$ev2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7982p7$nll$1@plug.news.pipex.net
In article <7982p7$nll$1@plug.news.pipex.net>,
"Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Tucker Taft wrote in message ...
> |Are you building an Ada compiler? If so, I would suggest investing
> |in head examination techniques ;-).
>
> Yes (he admits sheepishly). And yes, agreed.
>
> But ... people have the strangest passions (climbing mountains, leaping out
> of aircraft, standing for presidential election), and mine happens to be
> building an Ada compiler. It's a bit like sex: if nobody did it, there would
> be no more people! Well, somebody's got to build Ada compilers: if nobody
> did it, there would be no Ada compilers.
Hmmm. You must have the same kind of pathology as the retiree who decided to
singlhandedly build a four-lane highway from South Bend, IN to Indianapolis...
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-14 0:00 Fixed point multiplication ambiguity Marc A. Criley
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-14 0:00 ` bob
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-14 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-15 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-28 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-01-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Building a compiler (was: Fixed point multiplication ambiguity) Nick Roberts
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Garbage collection - was " news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-18 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-18 0:00 ` AdaHag
1999-02-18 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Garbage collection - was Re: Building a compiler Samuel Mize
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Garbage collection - was Re: Building a compiler (was: Fixed point multiplication ambiguity) Steven Hovater
1999-02-20 0:00 ` A Modest Defense of ACT (though they are big boys and can take care of themselves) Steve Quinlan
1999-02-21 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-21 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Dave Taylor
1999-02-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` GC+HC for GNAT/GCC (was: Building a compiler) Nick Roberts
[not found] ` <m33e4jvs1n.fsf@muc.de>
1999-02-06 0:00 ` GC+FSD for GNAT/GCC Nick Roberts
1999-02-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Building a compiler Nick Roberts
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-03 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1999-01-30 0:00 ` Fixed point multiplication ambiguity robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Building a compiler (was: Fixed point multiplication ambiguity) Nick Roberts
1999-02-03 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-28 0:00 ` Fixed point multiplication ambiguity robert_dewar
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