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Re:The March of Progress (in programming language syntax :) by hippo_crete on Saturday May 12, 2012 @07:49PM (#3965557)
In 1956 there was such a thing as "the compiler business". Companies bought compilers.

Now, most programmers only speculate what a compiler does. They are so focused on language details.

Few want to write compilers. Many want to write yet another new language.

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