In article <29577979-9E2C-4C38-A7D6-14670ADE42D9 / gmail.com>, Martin Coxall <pseudo.meta / gmail.com> wrote: > The K&R C specification is tiny. I wouldn't want to write a parser > for a language spec of the magnitude of C++ or Perl 6 in C. > > Others would though, and those people are bonkers. I've heard rumors of a Fortran compiler written in troff macros. Now *that* is bonkers... -- --Tim Smith