Darren New wrote:
> I remember reading of an Ada project where the customer was complaining
> the vendor's compiler was too slow. The vendor looked at the code,
> basically said "WTF mate?" and pointed out that using packages nested
> dozens of levels deep (the equivalent of templates referring to
> templates recursively dozens of times) are going to be slow to compile,
> and they asked the customer why they picked that technique. The customer
> pointed out that it was in the vendor's sample files. The vendor pointed
> out that *that* sample file was a compiler stress-test designed to
> validate the compiler doesn't choke even under awful programming
> practices. :-)
> 

I recall that, couldn't find the exact quote anywhere though.

"WTF? Why the hell are you coding like that?"
"Well, we modelled it after one of your samples"
"That wasn't a sample, that was a compiler stress-test!"

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