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CureYooz | 6 months ago

Yes, but one does not need university to do so.

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PaulHoule|6 months ago

But it helps.

One of my regrets is life is I never took a compiler class, I work at a university and can take a free class once a semester so I may rectify it this fall.

Still I taught myself a lot of that in the school of hard knocks.

I learned to read at three and got crazy well read checking out ten books a week from the public library as a kid. (Started my heavy backpack training!)

A lot of people fall for charlatans like L. Ron Hubbard and Eliezer Yudkowsky because they aren’t well read and don’t have anything to compare Dianetics and Sequences to.

sn9|6 months ago

What sort of compiler class were you looking for?

You can work through a book that uses a more modern approach like Siek's Essentials of Compilation which comes in Racket [0] and Python flavors.

Teach Yourself CS also has some more classic recommendations [1].

You may also be interested in using a language from the ML family [2] to implement a compiler [3].

Cornell also has a self-paced graduate level course [4].

This page also has a bunch of recs [5].

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/essentials-of-compila...

[1] https://teachyourselfcs.com/#languages

[2] https://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/

[3] https://a.co/d/2EhiUDM

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39577878

[5] https://steshaw.org/plt/