Block-diagram Generation
A useful option makes it possible to generates the block diagram representation of the program as one or more SVG graphic files. It is interesting to note the difference between the block diagram and the generated C++ code. As already said, the key idea here is not to compile the block diagram literally, but the mathematical function it denotes. Modern C/C++ compilers too don’t compile programs literally. But because of the complex semantic of C/C++ (due to side effects, pointer aliasing, etc.) they can’t go very far in that direction. This is a distinctive advantage of a purely functional language: it allows compilers to do very advanced optimisations.
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