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Re:Ask HN: Compiler Engineers, what would you advise new gra... by closeparen on Sunday September 08, 2019 @10:32PM (#20914761)
Programming language design doesn't feel like a solved problem, and it seems reasonable that new ways of expressing programs will require new techniques in compilers.
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Re:Ask HN: Compiler Engineers, what would you advise new gra... by cheez on Sunday September 08, 2019 @10:45PM (#20914814)
You're right, there are always new ways of expressing yourself. I don't mean to say that you don't need to have new ways to express yourself, but that the mechanism for converting expressions to machine code is well known. That is what is a solved problem.
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