Compilers, Interpreters and Programming Languages

A chat room for https://cs.stackexchange.com/ to discuss concepts and applications of compilers, interpreters and programming languages. Check out this question https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/139885/formatting-code-in-chat on how to format code in a chat. If you just want to share a snippet of code, it may be more appropriate to use an online tool such as https://pastebin.com/ or https://ideone.com/.