Criteria for knowing a language
What does it mean for somebody to claim to know a computer language? In the commercial world it means the person is claiming to be capable of fluently (i.e., only using knowledge contained in their...
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When writing in assembly language it is possible to operate on a sequence of bits as if it were an unsigned integer one moment and a floating-point number the next; it is the developer’s responsibility...
View ArticleThe oldest compiler still in production use is?
What is the oldest compiler still in production use? A CHILL compiler I worked on a long time ago has probably been in production use for 30 years now. Code gets added and deleted from production...
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