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by NAFV_P 4535 days ago
I was thinking of doing the exact opposite of this book, writing a book in C code that has to be compiled first.
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Did you mean literate programming? Something like "A Retargetable C Compiler" maybe?
> Did you mean literate programming?

I was thinking more along the lines of IOCCC. No matter how unreadable the code is, if it compiles and runs without grievance, it is superior to most of the nonsensical, god-awful English seen on the web.

> Something like "A Retargetable C Compiler" maybe?

Shit - come back to me in ten years time, then I might be able to answer.