One of my uni subjects required us to write a C to MIPS32 compiler, due to the lecturer being a fan of MIPS. No yacc, no gcc, do it all from scratch. An intere

One of my uni subjects required us to write a C to MIPS32 compiler, due to the lecturer being a fan of MIPS. No yacc, no gcc, do it all from scratch. An interesting lesson from it was that the argument about differences between compiled programming languages and scripts (which also arose during the course) is ultimately pointless. You can write a compiler to compile a scripting language, and you can write an interpreter to interpret and run something like C. So its not the language which matters but the compiling or interpreting.