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I was going to say that C++ does at least make the compiler implementor's job easy (as it shifts the burden of complexity onto the application programmer), but
by qwph 18y ago
I was going to say that C++ does at least make the compiler implementor's job easy (as it shifts the burden of complexity onto the application programmer), but then I started to think about what's involved in actually parsing C++, and decided that, hey, maybe it's no picnic for the compiler writers either...
- wheels 18y agoC++ is probably the hardest widely used language to parse. See the "FQL" for more: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defective.html#defect-2 http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defective.html#defect-2 (Note: I use and like C++ for a lot of things, but there is a lot of valid criticism of it and the FQL rants are at least well-informed.)