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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:

> On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 3:39:43 PM UTC-5, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Not everything is about the vast conspiracy to produce deliberately
>> useless compilers.
>
> Compiler writers don't sit down and say "Hey, let's write a useless
> compiler".  They do, however, fail to recognize what has traditionally
> made C useful for many applications.

Of the uncountable stupid things you've said, this may be the stupidest.