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rmrfrmrf on May 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github

Reading Dennis Ritchie's code is as close to reading a religious text as I'll ever come. The straightforward elegance of it is so inspiring!

anonymous on May 22, 2013 [–]

The lack of type noise makes it easier to read too.

yoklov on May 22, 2013 | [–]

I can't disagree more! Everything is an int -- Basically untyped, in C terms! Maybe less noisy, but hard to figure out what's going on.

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