From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,184737148aef02ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Building a compiler (was: Fixed point multiplication ambiguity) Date: 1999/02/03 Message-ID: <799o4r$ev2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 440187025 References: <78sojm$crk$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7982p7$nll$1@plug.news.pipex.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x11.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Feb 03 14:57:36 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-02-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7982p7$nll$1@plug.news.pipex.net>, "Nick Roberts" 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. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own