Re: Teaching compilers backwards?

Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
13 Oct 2003 00:16:12 -0400

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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Oct 2003 00:16:12 -0400
Organization: Road Runner
References: 03-09-073 03-10-014 03-10-041
Keywords: courses
Posted-Date: 13 Oct 2003 00:16:12 EDT

"Matthew K." wrote:
>
> It seems like it would be a good idea to me. I recently just started
> learning about compilers, and I did not see a connection between
> lexical scanning and code generation. If you teach the students to
> read in input and translate it in the same pass, then they might
> better see this connection.


I think that code generation is usually given short shrift. This is
mostly because, as many books say, it's very machine-specific, but
IMHO it's also partly that it comes at the end of the course and gets
truncated if there's a time crunch.



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