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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed,  2 Feb 2011 21:26:27 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9,
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> It is a C/C++/Obj-C compiler & does static analysis, has
> backends for multiple processor types as well as C as a
> target, a lot of optimization tricks etc.  See llvm.org.  But
> frankly, I think they have lost the plot. C is basically a
> portable assembly programming language & in my highly biased
> opinion a C compiler should do no more than peephole
> optimizations.  If you want more, might as well use a high
> level language.

preach it, brother.  i couldn't agree more.

- erik