So you want to be a compiler wizard (2016)

Re:So you want to be a compiler wizard (2016) by WalterBright on Sunday April 12, 2020 @03:31PM (#22850496)

> in my experience the best way to get better at compilers (I can't claim to be a wizard) is to just build a goddamn compiler.

Yup. In fact, the best way to start is to build a desk calculator, where you type in strings like:

    4 + 6

and it gives you back 10. There was one in the old K+R book. A compiler just scales that up.

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Re:So you want to be a compiler wizard (2016) by sitkack on Sunday April 12, 2020 @11:22PM (#22852908)

For context, parent wrote a C++ compiler and invented the D programming language.

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