Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Thu Aug 1 08:58:14 CDT 2013
Hi Arthur -- Well, I did develop a few compilers/translators/interpreters in the past (quite some time ago and processing simpler than Clipper's programming language instructions/directives) and they were successfully used by my colleagues and customers and I didn't use other compilers to developer that compilers I have used assemblers and linkers :) Just wanted to note that I'd not differentiate "real" and "fake" programmers by their ability to write compilers - IMO developing business applications is often a way more complicated that writing compilers as compilers do have strictly defined and relatively stable "rules of the game" (source language formal syntax and semantics) and projects' budgets, and modern business applications do have constantly changing specs, which require special skills/experience from their programmers/developers to keep business applications up-to-date with subject area business rules, in context of projects' tight budgets and deadlines... -- Shamil Thursday, August 1, 2013 9:01 AM -04:00 from Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>: >As my old friend Brian Russell (creator of Clipper) likes to say, "real >programmers don't use compilers, they write compilers." > >Arthur > > >On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil < mcp2004 at mail.ru >wrote: > >> HI Arthur -- >> >> Real developers do use hot-keys ! :) >> >> Yes, your "little baby" should fly - and I have a "little toy laptop" >> here too: Win8 Prof, ASUS, 17'', 12GB RAM, embedded 256GB (system) SSD and >> 1TB (data) HDD plus external 2TB USB3.0-driven HDD for backup etc. >> >> -- Shamil >> >> Thursday, August 1, 2013 8:15 AM -04:00 from Arthur Fuller < >> fuller.artful at gmail.com >: >> >Thanks, Shamil. As it happens I also accidentally discovered another path >> >to it, which is to drag the mouse to the right edge of the screen, and >> then >> >a pop-up group of images appears. I'm starting to like Windows 8, and I'm >> >really loving this new laptop (Dell, 8GB RAM and 1TB hard disk, with my >> old >> >two external drives attached via USB 3.0). So in total I have 2.5 TB of >> >disk storage, and 8GB of RAM is a world of difference from 4GB. This >> little >> >baby flies! >> > >> >A. >> > <<< skipped >>>