On 07.10.2017 09:24, Walter Bright wrote:
I've got a lot of scar tissue from "compiler implementation difficulty
is not a consideration." I don't believe that is a necessary path to a
high quality language. Compiler complexity is a huge red flag that
something is wrong with the design of the language.
The compiler implementation should be a joy to read and someone should
be able to read the spec, read the implementation of the spec, and go
yeah, of course, this is obviously correct, it's so simple!
I fully agree, my point was more that details of a specific
implementation should not influence the language design (too much).
What should matter more is compiler implementation difficulty "from
scratch", assuming all features that need to be supported are known from
the beginning. We don't really need technical debt in the language
specification.
