> The number of people who know compilers well enough to know how to jam them somewhere inappropriate is probably...startingly low, too. Agreed, I had a number

> The number of people who know compilers well enough to know how to jam them somewhere inappropriate is probably...startingly low, too. Agreed, I had a number of students complain to me in my programming languages class that I was focusing too much on compilers, and who would ever really need to write a compiler except compiler writers? They would rather I had taught them Go or Python. But I had to tell them, guys, compilers are awesome. There are so many uses! You can use them everywhere! No one seems to want to :(