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It's Compilers Week here at An Algorithmic Lucidity!
Which is to say that there will be no blogging this week because I'm busy writing a compiler.
But maybe you already guessed that there would be no blogging this week.
This obviously doesn't count.
In more ways than one.
(8:5x a.m., an office on the someteenth floor of the twenty-somethingth tallest building in San Francisco)
"Good morning!"
"'Morning."
"How was your weekend? Did you do anything exciting? Maybe you went to a movie, or to the beach—"
"No—"
"Or embarked on some heroic endeavor of engineering, the likes of which threaten to upend our understanding of the nature of computation itself?"
"No, nothing like that," (sighing, resignedly) "how was your weekend?"
(pretending to inspect his or her fingernails) "My weekend? Oh, nothing special—hung out, did some grocery shopping—"
"Uh huh."
"—wrote a compiler—"