Re: Mathematics skills for writing a compiler?

napi@axiomsol.com (napi)
14 Sep 2004 16:38:41 -0400

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From: napi@axiomsol.com (napi)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 Sep 2004 16:38:41 -0400
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Posted-Date: 14 Sep 2004 16:38:41 EDT

lucky7456969@hotmail.com (Jack) wrote
> What mathematical skills do I need in order to build an "average" compiler?
> such as numerical methods, CFG, DFS.... etc


You need to know Formal Language Theory which includes regular
languages, context free languages, etc. And you also need to know set
theory especially for optimizations. Other than that it's mostly
about programming using a lot of linked lists and hashing techniques.


Cheers.


Napi

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