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		simonw 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C ... Which book was that? Sounds excellent. Might have been Compiler Design in C from 1990. Looks like that's available for free now: https://holub.com/compiler/

blibble 14 days ago [–]

it's not that one, but it's in my parents house

you'll forgive me if I don't ring them in the early hours of the morning...

remember C was specifically designed to be easy to compile

(hence anachronisms like forward declarations)

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