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Re: recompile everything after compiler upgrade? (was: Re: problem with function as a

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply

2004-11-17, 3:59 pm

In article <20041117174701.55c5c308.d.a.ham@citg.tudelft.nl>, David Ham
<d.a.ham@citg.tudelft.nl> writes:

> For starters, the processor (ie the thing processing the fortran source)
> isn't required to be a compiler at all. It has been frequently pointed
> out that it would be completely legal to make a Fortran interpreter.

Right. The physicist Richard Feynman described a "compiler" at Los
Alamos during WWII which consisted of people passing cards to each
other, making calculations, noting results on them and passing them on.

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