tcc (was: Re: BDF Considered Harmful?)

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:21:08PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:14:03PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > I fail to see the difference between a BDF-to-PCF converter and a C compiler
> > that will discard comments from the C source files. Yet we do not generally
> > ship C source code in binary packages.
> 
> This is not the right analogy. A C source file by itself cannot be run
> without having been compiled

I guess you haven't seen the Real Men's only true scripting language.

apt-get install tcc
chmod a+x my-masterpiece-script.c
(prepend #!/usr/bin/tcc -run)
./my-masterpiece-script.c


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