Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course

Re:Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course by markus_zhang on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:31PM (#25392346)

Thanks. I'm actually very interested in lexing and parsing, because that's probably 99% of the stuff a layman-programmer gets to do with compiler theory in job. I mean not everyone gets chance to write the backend part, but parsing skill is almost used universally.

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Re:Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course by mafribe on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:56PM (#25392706)

A fun exercise is writing a lexer generator or a parser generator. It's probably easier starting out with writing a lexer generator like Flex for your favourite language. I recommend using the Flex input format, than you can test your creation using Flex as a testing oracle! This is not something you can do in a weekend.

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Re:Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course by markus_zhang on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:38PM (#25393816)

Thanks mafribe, looking forward to your future book (if there is one) :D

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