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by Johnny_Brahms 3550 days ago
By far the project that teaches me the most was writing an inliner for a toy language we developed as a part of a course at uni.

Most people don't really realise that the more complex an inliner gets, the more similarities it gets to a rabid animal you can just barely restrain on a leash.

My prof said he had laughed at my "how hard can it be?"-attitude . I worked my ass off and ended up being asked whether he could use the inliner in a language often mentioned on HN today :)

The inliner was superseded by a much better one in 2003 written by a much smarter person than I, though.