asciilifeform: and specifically as illustration of the physical limits of thompsonism, in the abstract

asciilifeform: i.e. whole problem of 'bootstrap', imho, is misformulated . why to fixate on thompsonism and then bring up multi-decamegabyte kernel fulla liquishit, on which to run overflowandcrashlang (aka 'c') compiler with which to then build moar of same, etc

asciilifeform: i suspect that the 'let's bootstrap c' thing comes from a narrow fixation on thompsonism to the exclusion of the other 9000 leprosies of the pdp age.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the only total cure for thompsonism is to ditch unix/c/pc/etc entirely. we aint there yet tho.

asciilifeform: i'd still like to ~categorically~ abolish thompsonism at some pt tho.

asciilifeform: ( as it is, we have an active unresolved 'thompsonism' in the mix )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the correct way to expose thompsonism, is to implement the compiler, and THEN to diff the bins.

asciilifeform: ( this is the kind of thing that uncovers thompsonism, say )

asciilifeform: ( there is not , for perfectly fundamental reasons, a compiler that can be blindly trusted -- to work correctly, not even speaking of thompsonism here )

asciilifeform: trinque: probably why threads re thompsonism tend to focus on gcc : it is THE failure point

asciilifeform: phf: the basic theorem involved in breaking out of a thompsonism is specificity-of-diddling.