From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-10-02T23:29:23+09:00 Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham Tim Smith writes: > In article <29577979-9E2C-4C38-A7D6-14670ADE42D9@gmail.com>, > Martin Coxall wrote: >> The K&R C specification is tiny. I wouldn't want to write a parser >> for a language spec of the magnitude of C++ or Perl 6 in C. >> >> Others would though, and those people are bonkers. > > I've heard rumors of a Fortran compiler written in troff macros. Now > *that* is bonkers... Not worse than the other way round... > --Tim Smith -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org