An example of Clang error messages

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Mar 4 13:34:03 PST 2010


bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>> Yeah, I wrote a C++ compiler back in 1987. It compiled itself, too!
>> The hard work of implementing C++ correctly was just beginning,
>> though.
> 
> C'mon Walter, give them some credit, wish them some luck, I think
> they will be able to compile a good percentage of Boost in less than
> 15 years ;-)

Given a solid C compiler, writing a reasonably compliant C++ compiler 
takes an additional 10 man years, in the best of circumstances. More 
reasonably, 20.



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