[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/3/2018 4:53 AM, invalid wrote:
> On 2018-08-02, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> Whether C++ is a good language for writing a compiler has nothing
>> to do with the platform knowledge.
> 
> It does indeed, because you have to write the libraries / run-time etc. to
> work on the host.

I have been claiming that C and C++ are good languages for writing
compilers in.

I have not - and I don't think anybody else has either - claimed
that they are good for writing the libraries / runtime.

They are probably good for that if either the OS interface
is C centric or the OS provide a good C wrapper library,
but that is another story.

Arne