Thanks for publishing it. I had long thought about writing a compiler in Awk. Finding yours through a comment here on HN some time ago served as a major validat

Thanks for publishing it. I had long thought about writing a compiler in Awk. Finding yours through a comment here on HN some time ago served as a major validation of the idea. I ended up writing one. Here is the result: https://github.com/dbohdan/all-caps-basic https://github.com/dbohdan/all-caps-basic. It targets C and uses libgc along with antirez's sds for strings. The multi-pass design with each pass consuming and producing text is intended to make the intermediate results easy to inspect, making the compiler a kind of working model. The passes are also meant to be replaceable, so you could theoretically replace the C dependencies with something else or generate native code directly in Awk. You can see some code examples in test/. Unfortunately, the compiler is very incomplete. I mean to come back to it at least to publish an implementation of arrays.