Re: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program

From	Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program
Date	2022-10-21 21:32 +0000
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Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> schrieb:
> 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 kind of PR to start with

[...]

Traditionally, internal compiler errors on invalid code have been
considered relatively easy. But you may always find a hard one...

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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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