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You've done some great work but I have to call BS with this claim: > I'm the only person who ever implemented all of it. Sean Baxter is an easy counter exampl
by cornstalks 1y ago
You've done some great work but I have to call BS with this claim:
> I'm the only person who ever implemented all of it.
Sean Baxter is an easy counter example.
- WalterBright 1y agoI don't know much of anything about him. Did he implement the preprocessor? the optimizer? the code generator? (For some context, back in the 80's, code generators needed enhancements to implement C++. You couldn't just use an existing one. Bjarne had to do some ugly workarounds because of this.)
- tux3 1y agoSean Baxter's circle compiler uses LLVM as a backend, but I believe the rest is from scratch. Arguably these days having a clear frontend/backend separation is good compiler architecture. It might slow down compile times a bit, but it's worth the cost.
- WalterBright 1y agoIt wouldn't have made much sense to write the preprocessor these days, too, but it is part of the C++ compiler. Unless integrating it with the C++ lexer for speed purposes, as I did.
- vkazanov 1y agoSo it sounds like he wrote the frontend of a cpp compiler? There's a lot of work in other layers as well.