[chrisseaton]

I was trying to challenge the idea that there is anything magic about compilers. Some people think they do magic things that they could never understand, but the reality all the techniques could be implemented in VB6 if you wanted. You don't need a server, a database driver, middleware or whatever. If your language can read from somewhere and write to somewhere that's all you need. That's what makes compilers perfect little programs in my mind.