Re: So why compile to C++ at all?

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Subject: Re: So why compile to C++ at all?
From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:45:02 -0400 (EDT)
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Israel@lith.com (Israel) writes:

> Dylan to C.  I may be missing something, I have very little computer
> science under my belt, but why would one need to do use another
> language as a middleman between it and machine code?

Because C is so low-level, it's almost assembler. And it's portable.

Native backends are better,but much more work.

Andreas

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