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Re:CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Down... by WalterBright on Saturday July 19, 2025 @12:29AM (#44612604)
Well, all my compilers use recursive descent for expressions, meaning the stack is used to maintain the current state. Whether you evaluate it while doing this or produce an IR is a trivial difference.
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Re:CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released as Free Down... by wvenable on Saturday July 19, 2025 @01:01AM (#44612725)
It might be a trivial difference but it's literally the thing that makes something a compiler. It should make sense. How a piece of software works doesn't make it a compiler or not; it's input and output of the software that defines it as a compiler. That's true of almost any broad category of software.
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