At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that the…

Dennis Ritchie
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At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler
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At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler

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