[Joker_vD]

That's not a satire. That's how people used to write code. Heck, I wrote a toy multi-pass compiler exactly like that in a B-like toy language that only had ints and arrays of (arrays of...) ints for data.

But that's incredibly old-fashioned; I am making fun of your "we write compilers like it's the 90s, and it's not the 90s" because you propose the technique from the early 70s. It's not the 70s.

[3cats-in-a-coat]

Well, if I must clarify my statement, my point was we sometimes write compilers like we're restricted by 90s limitations and understandings, and we aren't. I'm not rejecting something, simply because it was invented in the 90s, or 80s or 70s (or even before computers existed). Naturally, the way we run systems is as old as the world. We just have faster, smaller and more complicated systems now.