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"helden" is German for "heroes", concatenating words is fine in German grammar, I'm guessing he means compilers that try to be the hero and write their own code
by twhb 10y ago
"helden" is German for "heroes", concatenating words is fine in German grammar, I'm guessing he means compilers that try to be the hero and write their own code, rather than dumbly transform code into instructions.
- toolslive 10y ago"helden" is also Dutch for "heroes" and concatenation like that is also fine in Dutch.
- iagooar 10y agoBecause, well, Dutch is kind of a glorified German dialect ;) Just kidding, but German and Dutch share a close, common "ancestor" language, closer than any other Germanic languages. I used to have a professor at Uni who would always repeat, that a language is a dialect with an army, which kind of hits the spot.
- majewsky 10y agoMy term for stuff like this is "software that suffers from overly-clever syndrome".