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For compilers specifically, I think plenty of people would disagree.

It's not that it's exceedingly hard in C, but programming languages have evolved in the last millenium, and there are indeed language features that make writing compilers easier than it used to be

I have the most fun when I write x86 MASM assembly. It's a pretty simple language all in all, even with the macro system. Much simpler than C.

But a simple language doesn't always make it simple to write complex programs like compilers.