Yes, of course. But it was clearly meant as an analogy. The elements of good coding style that apply when writing a program in C don't necessarily apply to a

Yes, of course. But it was clearly meant as an analogy. The elements of good coding style that apply when writing a program in C don't necessarily apply to a compiler when it compiles a higher level language down to C. Similarly, the best practices for writing HTML by hand don't necessarily apply to a program that generates HTML from a higher level abstraction.