Karma-riffic.

[darch]

You probably don't know this[1], but I'm not a big JavaScript booster. Me and the Johnny-come-lately, badly-thought-out, deceptively-packaged rootkit-in-a-browser are not close friends. In fact, you might say that I've been engaging in a form of futile protest for the last six years or so, refusing to learn JavaScript on the justification that

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[tla]

Wait. You're...going to be writing...a compiler...in Javascript?

Your professor is a sick, sick man. Maybe once upon a time he had the class write one in PostScript.

[madmanatw]

Any chance that next class he's going to laugh and say "Just kidding!"?

[dolohov]

Are you sure this prof said Javascript, and not Java? Because that's... kinda nuts.

Well, maybe not. It's basically designed around text, is readable, contains variables... I dare you to grab a book on compiler optimization and implement something simple like loop unrolling ;)

I enjoyed writing my part of an operating system, and similarly enjoyed implementing a simple compiler in Java a few years back. Even if I never used the tool itself, the insight into their workings was invaluable.

[some_kitten]

Ow.

Just, ow.

[kirinn]

I had to write a lisp interpreter in ML, which was... kind of fun, actually.

I'm afraid I don't know any good death curses in Javascript, though.