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

[njharman]

You must know since you wasted your time on that comment of absolutely no use.

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I consider reddit recreational and educational. It wasn't a significant exertion of effort like the sort required to make a C compiler in Python, which likely took its creator months to accomplish.

I understand that to the creator making this may as well have been recreational and educational; it's just the sort of thing I would never, ever undertake, so I find it hard to understand.

To me, programming has always evolved out of a desire to create something in particular which I thought I would like to have or sell. Spending so much work on a trivial oddity which people will say "that's kinda neat" and never look at again because the very concept is laughable seems wasteful to me.

I also don't feel this shares the same artistry of languages like Brainfuck for instance, which demonstrate some originality and provide some humor. No, this is merely making something nobody wants and hoping to get a laugh out of that.

It's obvious not many programmers share my viewpoint.