Perhaps Wirth would say that compilers are _close enough_ to user programs to be a decent enough representation in most cases. And of course he was sensible eno

Perhaps Wirth would say that compilers are _close enough_ to user programs to be a decent enough representation in most cases. And of course he was sensible enough to also recognize that there are special cases, like matrix operations, where it might be wirthwhile. EDIT: typo in the last word but I'm leaving it in for obvious reasons.