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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5412c98a3943e746,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.221.4 with SMTP id qa4mr13604370pbc.7.1329838961990; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:42:41 -0800 (PST) Path: wr5ni51760pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Verified compilers? Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:42:40 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: R71d/PNwh8+XLOVLLghSiQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.61 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-02-21T16:42:40+01:00 List-Id: Here is a quote, I=E2=80=99m curious to read comments about (may be from= Randy ?) > According to Andrew Appel, "Part of Leroy=E2=80=99s achievement is tha= t he > makes it look like it's not so difficult after all: now that he's > found the right architecture for building verified compilers, > everyone will know how to do it." Quote source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compcert What do you think of this sentence, =E2=80=9Cnow that he's found the rig= ht = architecture for building verified compilers, everyone will know how to = do = it?=E2=80=9D -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity