> Heh. Or do you look that up from the spec sheet of the guys selling you 
> the metal? ;-)

Well there are standard steel and aluminium alloys that have well documented 
properties, when a supplier sells you one of these types you know what you 
are getting, and if it's not within the official standard then you can get 
your money back etc.

> Sure. I'm thinking about when the part is in normal use.

Ah I see, you mean if a part is designed to have some force applied during 
normal use, like a door handle or a key or something.  Well yes, obviously 
then you figure out what is the maximum force likely to be applied during 
normal use and simulate/test that it will not break under that load.

> Anyway, you need *something* that can compile Haskell source code. This is 
> the "stage-0" compiler.

But who wrote the stage 0 compiler?  Was it written in machine code?

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