alt Hacker NewsWe can tell you weren't around for the advent of compilers. To be fair, neither was I since the UNIX c compiler came out in '68 and was by far not the first compiler. Modern comilers you can make that claim about, but early compilers weren't.
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tjr • yesterday at 5:31 PM
Which early compilers were nondeterministic?
georgemcbay • yesterday at 8:51 PM
I've been programming since 6502/6510 assembly language and all compilers I've used were deterministic (which isn't the same thing as being bug free or producing the correct output for a given input).
All compilers have bugs. Any loss of semantics during compilation would be considered a bug. In order to do that, the source and target language need to be structured and specified. I wasn't around in the 60s either, but I think that hasn't changed.