Litherum on Nostr: I remember when I was in university, I attended a presentation by someone who said ...

I remember when I was in university, I attended a presentation by someone who said that the job of a compiler is to preserve the observable behavior of the program, but otherwise will do whatever it wants to the program

At the time, I was like “psh, no - I wrote a line of code and I expect the compiler to faithfully reproduce exactly what I said down to the letter”

How naive I was, back then