Re: A tiny self-hosting compiler used for teaching

George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:23:12 -0400

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From: George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
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Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:23:12 -0400
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Posted-Date: 08 Sep 2026 03:30:59 EDT



Hi John,


>[Your moderator has only limited sympathy for arguments about the aesthetics of
>declarations, noting a strong pattern of people liking what they learned first.
>Personally, I think Fortran EQUIVALENCE and COMMON statements are totally
>intuituitive, but then I would. -John]


Understood.


It was meant more to be a question of what was being done in the
author's language. I thought it needed a bit of background -
apologies if that went too far astray.


George


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