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		begueradj on Feb 5, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I coded a Pascal compiler for transputer as a teen... That was the era where we had to buy compilers to run C, Pascal ... code. That's why even SQL had (and maybe still has) its own C compiler.

neverartful on Feb 6, 2025 [–]

"SQL had (and maybe still has) its own C compiler"

Oh? Are you referring to something different from a database's precompiler?

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