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Jeff Atwood Blog: Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark?

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Carol Haynes:
The main issue (as I see it) is that if he gets run down crossing the road no one will be able to maintain the software !

rkarman:
yeah, i meant a compiler like Joel Spolsky wrote is not a big deal at all. like compiling some language to another (non machine) language.

i guess writing a genuine compiler could be done in a few months too. but you have to have a lot more knowhow to pull that off. if you have to first go figure out the PE format or the machine operations of the target platform then you are more looking toward a small year worth of work, lol.

f0dder:
Even "just" compiling one language to another isn't necessarily trivial; C++ used to be a frontend for C, and iirc the comeau compiler (currently the most compliant compiler, and only one that supports some of the _very_ advanced C++ stuff wrt. templates) also depend on another C++ compiler...

Also, google's AJAX toolkit compiles from JAVA to JavaScript.

But anything that outputs to vbscript can hardly be that complicated ;)

rkarman:
But anything that outputs to vbscript can hardly be that complicated ;)
-f0dder (September 15, 2006, 07:23 PM)
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