On 2013-12-18, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ideally, you should also have written at least one functioning
>> compiler before learning C as well.
>
> Why? I've never written a compiler. I've written plenty of C. I don't
> see how my lack of compiler writing experience has hindered my ability
> to write C.
I've always felt that there are features in C that don't make a lot of
sense until you've actually implemented a compiler -- at which point
it becomes a lot more obvious why some thing are done certain ways.
Maybe that's just me. I had written a compiler before I learned C, and
there were things that made perfect sense to me that seemed to confuse
others I worked with who were learning C at the same time.
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