<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Lawrence Crowl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lawrence@crowl.org" target="_blank">Lawrence@crowl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 3/14/18, Hyman Rosen <<a href="mailto:hyman.rosen@gmail.com">hyman.rosen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</span>> All [compilers] need to do is to model the abstract machine on the<br>
> underlying computer.<br>
<br>
Do you mean "_on_ the underlying computer" or "_of_ the underlying<br>
computer"?</blockquote><div><br>"On." The job of the compiler is to create an executable program that<br>models the visible behavior of the abstract machine when it is run.</div></div></div></div>