Re: Teaching compilers backwards?

<michael.l.ross@intel.com> schreibt:


>And instead of having the kids write their own from scratch,
>something they'll probably never do in their industrial careers, have
>them pick up something like gcc, study it, and modify it.


Do you really think that a student, with no experience with real
compiler code, can understand a monster like gcc in reasonable time???


IMO understanding other peoples code, in order to modify it, may be a
very separate course. But learning how things are done in one specific
program will not help much in learning the principles of compilation
etc. in general.


DoDi

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