Comment by anonymoushn
2 years ago
You really don't need a degree for this stuff. A typical degree has 1 class about this, and half of it is dedicated to formal language theory or the unfortunate practice of using parser generators.
2 years ago
You really don't need a degree for this stuff. A typical degree has 1 class about this, and half of it is dedicated to formal language theory or the unfortunate practice of using parser generators.
Then my degree was atypical, as we had several classes about this, scattered around two years of other stuff.
The theoritical stuff, history and evolution of programming languages, compiler and language design, the actuall toy language implementation all the way to native code.
30 years ago, maybe the quality of teaching went down, I guess.