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"God is the code, the code is God."
But now you have me thinking about this as well. It seems to me that -- with C at least -- the pre-processor is what does the compiling, in the linguistic sense. It takes code from various files, and compiles it together into one monolithic file for further analysis.
The pre-processor is therefore the compiler. What we traditionally think of as compiling should have a different term for it.
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Maybe translation would be a better term. In fact, both C and C++ have the concept of translation unit, which seems to correspond to an individual .c or .cpp file. Logically, each of these is compiled separately, and the specs contain some arcane rules that seem to imply that this be done in theory, if not in practice. But for efficiency, I think it can all be compiled as one big file. That's what I do in my static analysis tool, which does much of what a compiler does but stops short of laying out memory and generating executable object code.
@code-witch is likely more expert on this and may weigh in.
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You covered what I know. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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A red-letter day!
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Maybe you should have quoted from the night song:
Quote: But I live in mine own light, I drink again into myself the flames that break forth from me.
I know not the happiness of the receiver; and oft have I dreamt that stealing must be more blessed than receiving.
Compiler would have recognized you are an Übermensch and not resisted you.
Mircea
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A closely related Nietzsche quote: "Everything the state says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
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On matters of the state, I'm a bit more Stirner than Nietzsche as German philosophers go. 
Although I have to concede that as I've grown older the value of the commons is less lost on me than it once was.
I like the idea that we're ants, and we can direct our collective efforts through meaningful self-governance.
There are things a government can do that individuals cannot meaningfully do. That's often a bad thing. As I've grown older, I've become more aware of the good - things like the Internet, the initial moon landing, so much research. Hell, even the census. Sometimes we try to do things like this through other means and it either makes a few people very rich and becomes exclusive, or it simply can't reliably scale. Sometimes, like when we privatize prisons, it can become abhorrent, because it creates a profit incentive along the wrong lines. Imagine lobbying a government to pass stricter laws and longer sentences so you can lock more people up in your prisons. That's a thing that actually happens. Sometimes it's just better to tax.
I've probably said too much, but considering how much thought time i spent on this post, I'll risk hitting send.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Imagine district attorneys who won't enforce those stricter laws. Heck, they won't even enforce the regular ones.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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honey the codewitch wrote: it creates a profit incentive along the wrong lines
Like a local senator in my state who ran for governor (and lost) who votes down every proposal to decriminalize or legalize marijuana for any use because she owns a majority share of a company who does drug testing for companies.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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The parasitic class, ever with us.
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And there's more than one class of parasites.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Quote: Imagine lobbying a government to pass stricter laws and longer sentences so you can lock more people up in your prisons.
In the 50's and 60's Larry Niven wrote a bunch of short stories on using prison inmates as a sort of living organ bank to draw on when a contributing member of society needed a transplant. He wrote that as the need for transplant organs grew, lesser and lesser crimes sentenced you to prison. One of his stories was about a man arrested that knew he would be sentenced to the organ bank. He escaped, caused murder, mayhem and destruction, then was insulted that when he was caught again they only convicted him for his original crime - his 3rd minor traffic offense.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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As a big DEC fanboi, I often have to quote...
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) 1977
(As I did a few moments ago on another thread.)
But earlier this month I read a book by John Kemeny -- creator of BASIC. "Man and the Computer", 1972
He makes some predictions through the year 2000. Some pretty much correct, others not so much.
Mainly he predicts people using teletypes or terminals at home to dial into their networks to work on a dozen or so central computers.
Where he was wrong was that home computers were about to be a reality -- and few people would use a dumb terminal at home.
But still, technology aside, he describes such activities as using a computer to order groceries for home delivery. And E-mail, news reports, etc.
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I was a DEC fanboi too when my paycheck and wide eyed learning was at stake.
Now after retiring after 30 years of running a Mom n' Pop PC support shop, I don't think regular people should have computers at home. Reason being, when the internet became a thing, people who never had one at home, now had to and that caused a whole new host of problems we were loosely responsible for (If we wanted to eat). Microsoft gave them the folder concept with little manila colored folders. Do you think that helped? not one bit. Now the only ones left of the normal walk of life, who buy and have pcs are retirees and still can't connect to a printer nor yet know what an Ip address is. They approach their cars the same way. So it's not the devices, but mankind.
We have PTSD about it all now and have become very jaded and recluse and I miss my people.
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Ron Anders wrote: I miss my people
I suppose that's why we're both here on CP.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Along with that little gem, we have what Microsoft said with Windows 8: People will want a touch-first interface on their desktop PCs.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I still occasionally use a Win 8 system, but I never use the touch screen.
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You raise Microsoft, I throw Steve[^]
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