On 18/10/2015 11:00 AM, clipka wrote:
> I would suspect that a fully /ANSI-compliant/ C compiler isn't really
> that big of a deal to implement, given how much stuff in the standard is
> explicitly "implementation specific" or "undefined".
>
> Writing a C compiler that meets common /expectations/ about the C
> language, now that would be an entirely different thing.

I am not enough of a C expert to comment definitively. Implementing C++ 
sounds nightmarishly hard! (Template metaprogramming, anyone?)

And yet, since these are both extremely popular languages, there's 
thousands of implementations...

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