Can we trust the go compiler? edit: This is the link I meant - https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
You can still, if you really want to, build the Go 1.4 from its C source, then compile the go compiler with that result.
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#42a curiosity question. is "all but impossible" correct?
shouldnt it be "all but possible" or "all but easy"?
whenever i see the "X is all but Y" phrase, it makes sense to me that X is not Y. its everything else but/except Y.
am i thinking correctly or is the use in the slides correct?
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#44a curiosity question. is "all but impossible" correct? shouldnt it be "all but possible" or "all but easy"? whenever i see the "X is all but Y" phrase, it makes sense to me that X is not Y. its everything else but/except Y. am i thinking correctly or is the use in the slides correct?
> is "all but impossible" correct?
Yes.
> whenever i see the "X is all but Y" phrase, it makes sense to me that X is not Y.
It's not "X is not Y", it's "X is all but Y", that is, X is very nearly not Y. "All but impossible" means it's possible, but only barely.
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#45a curiosity question. is "all but impossible" correct? shouldnt it be "all but possible" or "all but easy"? whenever i see the "X is all but Y" phrase, it makes sense to me that X is not Y. its everything else but/except Y. am i thinking correctly or is the use in the slides correct?
The idiom "X is all but Y" means "X is very nearly, but not quite, Y." I think of it as "X is in all ways like Y except one last little bit."
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#46Just out of curiosity, is this the first time a language is written using itself?
There's quite a few languages that bootstrap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29#...
So if you follow it all the way down, what does all these self-hosting code become? Machine code?
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#47Fun fact: what's common between Rob Pike, Bjarne Stroustrup, Larry Wall, Guido van Rossum, and so many other language inventors?
They're all C programmers!
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#48a curiosity question. is "all but impossible" correct? shouldnt it be "all but possible" or "all but easy"? whenever i see the "X is all but Y" phrase, it makes sense to me that X is not Y. its everything else but/except Y. am i thinking correctly or is the use in the slides correct?
It's an exaggeration where the upper bound isn't met.
All but impossible, it's everything up to, but not including impossible.
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#49a curiosity question. is "all but impossible" correct? shouldnt it be "all but possible" or "all but easy"? whenever i see the "X is all but Y" phrase, it makes sense to me that X is not Y. its everything else but/except Y. am i thinking correctly or is the use in the slides correct?
It's correct, but so is your line of thinking. These things are not impossible, they are all but impossible. And all in this context includes things like requires an expert, is highly hard to do, and/or would take many years. It is all of those things, but not impossible, hence all but impossible.
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#50a curiosity question. is "all but impossible" correct? shouldnt it be "all but possible" or "all but easy"? whenever i see the "X is all but Y" phrase, it makes sense to me that X is not Y. its everything else but/except Y. am i thinking correctly or is the use in the slides correct?
> is "all but impossible" correct? Yes. > whenever i see the "X is all but Y" phrase, it makes sense to me that X is not Y. It's not "X is not Y", it's "X is all but Y", that is, X is very nearly not Y. "All but impossible" means it's possible, but only barely.
And to make it extra confusing there's "X is anything but Y" idiom which basically means what pvinis says.