> I did get an A, the professor said I should've gotten bonus points, but in retrospect he would've been within his rights to fail me outright Well, to be fair

> I did get an A, the professor said I should've gotten bonus points, but in retrospect he would've been within his rights to fail me outright Well, to be fair, in the real world its not too rare for engineers to write custom programming languages to solve their problems (see: this thread). So what you did isn't that far outside of what's really done, assuming you submitted the code for the programming language with the assignment. That said, I think he would have been within his rights to give you a C for overengineering it :p.