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Re:Ask HN: Compiler Engineers, what would you advise new gra... by mshockwave on Sunday September 08, 2019 @11:26PM (#20914986)
yep. PL is definitely not equal to compiler. As in academic, PL is closer to theoretic computer science, especially computing theory. But in rest of the field, most of the time they're interchangeable.
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Re:Ask HN: Compiler Engineers, what would you advise new gra... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday September 08, 2019 @11:45PM (#20915068)
Compiler comes under PL (if you want to publish a compiler paper, PLDI is the place to do that). PL is actually a very broad designation, and there are plenty of non-theory oriented PL researchers.
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