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0 points4ad7y ago0 comments

Ken Thompson has been writing compilers for over 50 years now. If you believe that Ken "barely knew how to get a compiler working in the first place", we have nothing to talk about, as you obviously made up your mind already.

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candiodari7y ago

Then read the source for the compiler yourself. Tell me I'm wrong.

4adOP7y ago

Not only I have read it, I have written several compiler targets for it. You are wrong. It's by far the easiest compiler I have worked with.

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candiodari7y ago

Then read the source for the compiler yourself. Tell me I'm wrong.

4adOP7y ago

Not only I have read it, I have written several compiler targets for it. You are wrong. It's by far the easiest compiler I have worked with.

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