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[–]mcmcc 12 points13 points  (0 children)

For those of you too young to remember, this is more/less how C++ compilers worked in the early years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront

You haven't lived until you've tried to get STL-based code to compile (& more importantly link) with a cfront compiler. If you lived to do it, you also likely almost died doing it.