Re: What should I prepare for a PL PhD program

Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
Fri, 21 Oct 2022 03:37:47 -0000 (UTC)

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From: Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 03:37:47 -0000 (UTC)
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Posted-Date: 21 Oct 2022 13:43:35 EDT

On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:30:40 +0200
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> wrote:
> On 10/19/22 10:30 AM, Nuno Lopes wrote:
>
> > PL is very broad, so I don't know exactly what you like, but I suggest you
> > start participating in an open-source project to learn how production code
> > is developed and to improve your own coding skills.
>
> Open source projects often direct newbies to their to-do list. That's
> the "hall of shame" with problems beyond the skills or knowledge of the
> "core" developers.


First , participating in an open source project doesn't mean that one waits
to be "directed". They can simply notice a bug and send a fix or add some new
functionality. Second , issues on the todo list may be stuff that core
developers don't know how to do or it may be stuff that they haven't got
around to doing. In my experience it is almost always the latter.

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