Re: Teaching compilers backwards?

> hard to decipher. That god awful textbook by Aho (the "Dragon Book")
> is about as exciting as "Gone With The Wind." It's full of symbols and


Heresy in this group, but true. The authors were theorists, and
programmers just want to know how to get it done. The trick is to skip
most of the theory part, there is much gold in elsewhere in that book.


> We had a lot of latitude, so I wrote an APL subset to Basic translator


I still feel to this day that the best learning experience I had in
school was to write a RD subset C compiler, including manual lexer,
symbol table, and generating 3-address C code. I used a lot of the
Dragon Book example to jump start it, so I finished well before the
end of the semester.

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