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That is my experience as well, but keep in mind that the design of the source language affects this. For instance, writing a parser for C++ would be a nightmare
by procrastitron 18y ago
That is my experience as well, but keep in mind that the design of the source language affects this. For instance, writing a parser for C++ would be a nightmare full of bookkeeping, but a basic translation to machine code would be relatively straight forward.