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by direwolf20 132 days ago
GP: "it didn't write a C compiler, it copied other compilers. Writing one from scratch is a lot harder."

You: "but look! It wrote a C compiler!"

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The pattern matching rote-student is acing the class. No surprises here. There is no need to understand the subject from first principles to ace tests. Majority of high-school and college kids know this.