"This is nothing to do with something simpler" and "this is from a single pass compiler". Are you sure you actually read my second bullet point? If you read t

"This is nothing to do with something simpler" and "this is from a single pass compiler". Are you sure you actually read my second bullet point? If you read texts and papers by Wirth you'll see a single theme emerge: simplicity. Everything he didn't consider simple was thrown away and derided.