Re: 'Learning Compilers': Functional vs. Imperative Host?

>lexing and parsing needs to be taught somewhere in an undergraduate curriculum
>(as it is useful for much more than compilers), but it doesn't have to be in the


    Perhaps in the Data Structures course? I'm taking DS here, and for
some reason everyone here thinks that GC and memory-alllocation needs to
be introduced in DS. Which is fine - I think now that GC should have
some place in an undergrad course sequence. I'd just rather it be put in
a separate Storage Management class, so that we could go over things in
detail instead of basically skimming, and go over more than just 3 GC
algorithms (ref counting, mark-sweep, Cheney copying collector).
Incremental and generational really should be introduced (I know nothing
about how they are implemented, just that they are used..) And DS is
really too big a topic to be stuffed into less than a semester - we're
barely going to get to AVL trees and hash tables..


Jim

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