Re: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program

From	Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program
Date	2022-10-21 03:37 +0000
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:30:40 +0200
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> wrote:
> On 10/19/22 10:30 AM, Nuno Lopes wrote:
>
> > PL is very broad, so I don't know exactly what you like, but I suggest you
> > start participating in an open-source project to learn how production code
> > is developed and to improve your own coding skills.
>
> Open source projects often direct newbies to their to-do list. That's
> the "hall of shame" with problems beyond the skills or knowledge of the
> "core" developers.

First , participating in an open source project doesn't mean that one waits
to be "directed". They can simply notice a bug and send a fix or add some new
functionality. Second , issues on the todo list may be stuff that core
developers don't know how to do or it may be stuff that they haven't got
around to doing. In my experience it is almost always the latter.

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What should I prepare for a PL PhD program Tianbo Hao <tianboh@alumni.cmu.edu> - 2022-10-18 14:52 +0800
  RE: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program "Nuno Lopes" <nuno.lopes@tecnico.ulisboa.pt> - 2022-10-19 09:30 +0100
    Re: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2022-10-20 11:30 +0200
      Re: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2022-10-21 03:37 +0000
        Re: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-10-21 21:32 +0000
          Re: random debugging, What should I prepare for a PL PhD program gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-10-21 16:56 -0700
            Re: random debugging, What should I prepare for a PL PhD program Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-10-22 08:49 +0000
              Re: random debugging, What should I prepare for a PL PhD program Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2022-10-23 01:27 +0200
                Re: random debugging, What should I prepare for a PL PhD program gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-10-23 00:00 -0700
                Re: random debugging, What should I prepare for a PL PhD program Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-10-23 09:28 +0000
  Re: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-10-19 01:33 -0700
  Re: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-10-20 07:33 +0000

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