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> I don't have to carefully prompt my compiler in case it might misinterpret what I'm saying. Yes you do. You give it flags, you give it ENV vars. > My compi
by petcat 7mo ago
> I don't have to carefully prompt my compiler in case it might misinterpret what I'm saying.
Yes you do. You give it flags, you give it ENV vars.
> My compiler comes with a precisely specified language.
No, it doesn't.
> I never, ever, review the output of my compiler.
Yes, that's the whole point of the exercise. Have you ever reviewed the -S output from GCC? No? So do you really know what your code is doing?
- xigoi 7mo ago> Yes, that's the whole point of the exercise. Have you ever reviewed the -S output from GCC? No? So do you really know what your code is doing? Because I gave it some code in a different language and it mechanically translated it through a deterministic, clearly documented process.