Geek creed

Have you guys ever built your own OS or Compiler?

This schizophrenic templeOS guy was spamming /r9k/, and i started to think, what am i doing worrying about nogf when i haven't even accomplished the ultimate geek mission?

Most engineers i've met at a major telecom company have done this, or both.. and had it run on hardware they soldered togheter themselves back before there was standardized motherboards.

I have no excuse, other that im lazy, stupid, and certainly not a wizzkid.
But how about you guys?

I wrote a Scheme interpreter in C. Turning it into a compiler would not be too hard. I just see no point.

As far as the OS thing, making OS has become a clusterfuck, I got to the point where I was able to boot a "Hello world" kernel in QEMU (took keyboard input, some simple commands, printed results, etc) and then got bored.

I've been wanting to write a C compiler for a while, though.

Writing a Scheme interpreter is a good project to get started on all of this as interpreting Scheme is fairly simple.