Making compiler design relevant for students
There are a few courses that at first I thought they would never be useful to me or my career, but they always help me develop other skills, not necessarily related to the topic. I still don’t know if I’m going to use the information once I finish school, but they did help me open my mind to other forms of programming or designing software or architectures. It is interesting the approach that the author has on how it can be a point of interest for students the study on how to make a compiler, i think his words has a certain degree of truth on why normally students do not put as much attention as to other courses, it takes a very specific type of work to be able to apply the knowledge gained in this class to real world problems, but i think with the momentum that artificial intelligence is gaining, and be able to understand natural language through machine, courses like this gain more and more sense. As the author mentions, the knowledge used to make and design a compiler has the goal o...