bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:Yeah, I wrote a C++ compiler back in 1987. It compiled itself, too! The hard work of implementing C++ correctly was just beginning, though.C'mon Walter, give them some credit, wish them some luck, I think they will be able to compile a good percentage of Boost in less than 15 years ;-)
Given a solid C compiler, writing a reasonably compliant C++ compiler takes an additional 10 man years, in the best of circumstances. More reasonably, 20.
