Like a compiler, only without those annoying warnings and confusing error messages. An optimistic complier is a complier that believes this has a chance of working. Having seen what ignoring warnings can lead to, I tend to prefer compilers...
Com*pli"er (?), n.
One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yieldy temper.
Swift.
© Webster 1913.
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