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Re:A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ by patrec on Thursday August 17, 2023 @06:45PM (#37169248)
> Most graduates of Computer Science programs can, perhaps with some trouble, implement a half decent C compiler in a weekend or two.

Where "most" of course means < 0.1%.

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Re:A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ by TillE on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:03PM (#37169426)
Two weekends is ludicrously optimistic even if you're leaning heavily on existing parser libraries, but if you've taken a programming languages class, you can write a simple compiler for a large subset of C.
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