"It doesn't have the big picture about what problem the application is trying to solve, and so misses things that a good programmer will be able to do because he has the totality of the solution in his mind" - Precisely.
In other words . . .Whaddahya know ? A compiler is not intelligent, it is only a program!
Funny how many people don't get this. . . - oh yeah I forgot - they are not programmers. (Although paradoxically it is programmers who are making compilers better- and writing themselves out of a job in the process  - therefore sure, you can pick up tricks from a compiler, since you are in fact picking them up from the designer who put them there in the first place.
Computers do not yet build themselves. . . that comes later! 
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Last edited by DimViesel; 2nd June, 2003 at 07:57 PM.
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