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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.
Dennis Ritchie
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
Eric S. Raymond
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
Tim Berners-Lee
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
John Carmack
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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.
Dennis Ritchie 
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Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
Eric S. Raymond
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Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
Tim Berners-Lee
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I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
John Carmack
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