By your definition practically any code is a compiler unless you literally typed out every individual thing the machine should do, one by one. "Understanding c

By your definition practically any code is a compiler unless you literally typed out every individual thing the machine should do, one by one. "Understanding compilers is hard." I think this is just unnecessarily pessimistic or embracing incompetence as the norm. It's really not hard to understand the concept of an "inline" loop. And so what if I do write a compiler so that when I do `print("%d", x)` it just gives me a piece of code that converts `x` to a "digit" number and doesn't include float handling? That's not hard to understand.