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Re:If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it ... by kenjackson on Thursday August 07, 2014 @11:44AM (#8148294)
The back end may be the fun part, but there is a lot of actual computer science in the front end too.
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Re:If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it ... by agumonkey on Thursday August 07, 2014 @12:12PM (#8148482)
Agree, grammars can be fun, but IMO syntax is the source of many wasted efforts and endless debates. Just use s-exps. Easy to parse, easy to manipulate, maybe not the easiest to read statically, but you can ask your ide/editor to query/transform it to check or gather data.
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