Robert G. Brown wrote:
>> Compilers are designed to compile code written by humans. >> Autogenerated code typically does not optimize well. > > Or be human-readable. f2c code was just about as evil as any zomby > woof or eskimo boy could be. I used to try to use it to START porting > fortran sources to C, but rapidly concluded that it was actually easier Heh... I had to use f2c early on for some MD programs in grad school. Machine we were running on only had licenses for C compilers, no fortran. So, f2c, run, find problem, work our way back to the offending source line in f2c, then back to .F Ugh. As for human readability, well, even humans can generate some fairly unreadable code. Some do it on purpose (http://codegolf.com/ http://perlgolf.sourceforge.net/ and a few others) for fun and games. Some do it because they don't know any better. Some do it because they are trying to be helpful. Or leverage something they just read about, but really don't yet grasp ... Joe ps disclosure: FWIW I do play the occasional Perl golf. Last one I played with was to write a roman numeral calculator (c.f. http://www.fonality.com/golf/ and http://www.fonality.com/golf/post_mortem.cgi?id=1). -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 or +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
