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by wglb 1596 days ago
> Anyone who says they can write a compiler in a year should be fired." Roger himself held the same opinion, a couple of years later

Nonsense.

Three of us did it in a year compiling a language similar to PL/M written in Bliss 36 on a PDP-10. And that was when compilers were much harder to do then than they are now.