[TYPES] Declarative vs imperative

[Procter, Adam M. (MU-Student)]

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On Apr 23, 2013, at 2:21 AM, "Mark Janssen" <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:

> But there are no details left out.  Neither the computer nor compiler
> "fills in the gaps".  What computing devices are you talking about?
> At every step, at the various levels of abstraction, from the
> high-level source code, to the the binary executable, there is a
> complete and detailed "transformation" logic.   It will compile down
> to the same machine code *every* time, if it's working properly.

Are you claiming, then, that all those fancy optimization flags I can pass to my C compiler don't actually do anything? Or that (say) -fomit-frame-pointer is unfaithful to the "complete and detailed transformation logic"? Better file a bug report.

Really, I just don't understand what you're trying to say here.

Adam