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Something about that rule seems extremely backwards to me. Might as well implement a Prolog or Scheme in a lower level language then do your compiler assignments in that.

Reminds me of this quote "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule




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