Alternatively, you can learn macros, as PG might suggest. Fundamentally, compilers just translate one string of symbols into another. The ones we're familiar with just translate a high level language into assembly. But there are others -- every object relational model system has a defacto compiler.

So did he spell Knuth wrong as a typo or through ignorance? Or is this some subtle insult? Doesn't seem to thing Perl qualifies as useful either...Oh well, one less opinion to worry about.