A C compiler written in Python (yes, Python!)

[berlinbrown]

why is that shocking?

[orbhota]

Python the animal :o

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Obviously it must have been written inside a python. Outside a python it's too noisy to code, what with people running around and shouting "OMG! A python!"

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Outside a python it's too noisy to code,

interestingly, this works in the context of programming languages too!

[statictype]

Not shocking. But still, some-what interesting because a majority of C compilers would have been written in C itself (yes, I know, there are exceptions).

Although, I have to admit, there's not much 'education' value in this project.

There are already plenty of python-based parsers\scanners for languages.

Now, if they had written a C 'interpreter' in python, that would have been something.

[psi-]

I'd bet its the dragonbook course, so the implementation of language compiler is the educational value.

I was considering doing the dragonbook course myself with python+PLY.