[OT] Crazy language limit-pushing (Was: Re: Why C++ compiles slowly)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello Nick,
>
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
>> news:i4kjdp$2o9f$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> Yeah, and I've seen OOP done in C, and it works. It's just awful.
>>> I've even seen OOP done in assembler (Optlink!).
>>>
>> I've seen high-precision PI calculation done in MS batch:
>>
>> http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-A-Batch-of-Pi.asp
>> x
>>
>> And Adam Ruppe did cgi in Asm:
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>> http://www.arsdnet.net/cgi-bin/a.out
>>
>> And some massochist did a compile-time raytracer in C++:
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>> http://ompf.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1556
>>
>> Yea, I know that had already been done in D, but D's compile-time
>> processing doesn't suck :)
>>
>
> Um... does Boost fit in here?
>

Zing! :)