> I think I would normally prefer useful error messages rather than the
> C style where you might get 100 errors because of one missing '}'

So do I, and so do all students I ever had. But C (and some other) 
compilers seem to boost mainly their ability to generate tight code.

The computer industry is full of historical artifacts. Why multipass 
compilers (now almost extinct)? A stone -age compiler could just contain 
a single pass.. Why make only a single pass over the source input? The 
stone-ago compiler could contain only a single pass, the input was on 
cards or magtape or papertape. Why separate compilation? Why a separate 
linking stage? Why find as many errors as you can in one run? You can 
probably guess.

For the more advanced guessers: why does the ASCII character DEL have 
the value 0x7F, and what is its exact meaning?

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