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Sarcasm about C to POSIX shell compilers
Original: As opposed to all those other, completely untrustworthy, C to POSIX shell compilers. # programming
A programming joke making the rounds mocks the idea of compilers that translate C into POSIX shell scripts, sarcastically questioning which such compilers are 'trustworthy'. C-to-shell transpilers are a niche, largely experimental curiosity, and programmers are amused by the absurdity of treating them as a serious or trustworthy tooling category.
Why now: The sarcastic phrasing is a programmer in-joke about an obscure and impractical compiler concept.
Evidence
- As opposed to all those other, completely untrustworthy, C to POSIX shell compilers. # programming · rk@well.com · 3
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