> I guess compilers are the only "kind" of project I can imagine a few complex parts. What's so hard about a compiler? You read some files, split into tokens,

> I guess compilers are the only "kind" of project I can imagine a few complex parts. What's so hard about a compiler? You read some files, split into tokens, sort into a tree, and then walk the tree and write some instructions to disk at each node. Can be done in a couple hundred lines of code. (\s: the point is that all software gets complicated, and a few thousand lines is not a lot of code)