[willvarfar]

Actually, as its co-designed by a compiler writer (read the bio we paste with the talks:

> Ivan Godard has designed, implemented or led the teams for 11 compilers for a variety of languages and targets, an operating system, an object-oriented database, and four instruction set architectures. He participated in the revision of Algol68 and is mentioned in its Report, was on the Green team that won the Ada language competition, designed the Mary family of system implementation languages, and was founding editor of the Machine Oriented Languages Bulletin. He is a Member Emeritus of IFIPS Working Group 2.4 (Implementation languages) and was a member of the committee that produced the IEEE and ISO floating-point standard 754-2011.

), its actually designed to be easy to write a compiler for. It's he polar opposite of the "sufficiently smart compiler syndrome" :)

I keep suggesting we do a "sufficiently dumb compiler syndrome" talk, but it'd contain nothing novel; the art is well established by all the VLIW machines that have come before.