Comment by g9yuayon

Parsing is frontend of a compiler. That the compiler course focuses on compiler backend does not mean it's not relevant to the industry. I personally find aliasing, flow analysis, and and optimization very relevant to what we needed to do.

As for industry vs academia, wouldn't it be fair to say that professors should teach which ever is more advanced? I certainly don't believe that teaching Java generics, no matter how relevant that is, is relevant to a PhD program, which is supposed to push the state of the art of a subject.