&gt; A while back I wrote a compiler which targeted GNU Make and made it run Conway&#x27;s Game of Life (complete with hand-tooled arbitrary precision maths library written in make). I learnt more about this stuff than is healthy to know. The compiler output is... special.<p>One part of me wants to buy you a drink.<p>The other part wants to scratch my eyes out with a rusty fork.<p>Since I have no rusty forks at hand, and we probably won&#x27;t ever meet, I&#x27;m just going to enjoy this as new record in &quot;because-I-can&quot;-land.