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| From | Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | If I were in charge of the computer science curriculum at a college or university ... |
| Date | Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:54:03 +0000 |
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Hi Folks, If I were in charge of the computer science curriculum at a college or university I would require students to first take a course on how to create lexers and parsers using a parser generator (e.g., Flex and Bison) before taking a course on compilers. For the last many months I have been immersed in learning Flex and Bison (great fun!). Recently I have started reading the dragon compiler book. As I read it, I come across things in it and think "Ah, that's why Flex/Bison does that." But I also come across things and think "Oh man, I never would have understood what that is saying if I didn't know Flex/Bison." The dragon book is filling in gaps in my understanding of Flex/Bison, while simultaneously Flex/Bison is filling in gaps in the dragon book's explanation. Synergy! I believe that some of you are on the faculty at colleges and universities. Is this how your curriculum works? /Roger [When I was teaching a compilers course back in the late 1970s I talked about lex and flex when we covered regular expressions and DFAs, and about yacc when we covered LR parsing. They're just tools, not worth a separate course. -John]
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If I were in charge of the computer science curriculum at a college or university ... Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2022-06-19 11:54 +0000 Re: If I were in charge of the computer science curriculum at a college or university ... gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-06-20 16:16 -0700
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