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Re:Rich Programmer Food (2007) by yumaikas on Monday May 23, 2016 @03:01PM (#11756007)
What courses form the mathatical basis for writing compilers? Discrete Math and the like?
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Re:Rich Programmer Food (2007) by zenogais on Thursday May 26, 2016 @01:37PM (#11779906)
Usually discrete math as the absolute bedrock, then a good understanding of automata theory.
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