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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 08:14:04 JST Rich Felker

   Huge pet peeve: the PL folks' obsession with implementing their language compiler in the language itself.

   All language interpreters or compilers should be written in a more primitive, widely available, easier to bootstrap language.

   IDGAF if it's C. Write your compiler in Python if you like. Or Perl. Or shell script. Just not the new language itself or something obscure.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 11:11:11 JST Rich Felker

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     • Koz Ross

     @koz Funny thought: imagining writing a Logo interpreter in Logo.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 11:11:12 JST Rich Felker

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     • Koz Ross

     @koz This is an angle I hadn't even considered.

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     Koz Ross (koz@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 11:11:13 JST Koz Ross

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     @dalias Yeah, this is a huge annoyance of mine too. It inherently drives a language, and its standard library, towards compiler development, despite this being a fairly niche case. Usually at the expense of other things.