On 18/12/2013 18:05, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-12-18, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
In article <l8pvsl$60h$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> 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.
I've never contemplated writing a compiler, let alone actually written
one. It's like the comments along the lines of "you can't call yourself
a programmer until you've mastered regular expressions". Some of my
mates who work on air traffic management systems have maybe never heard
of a regex but who cares, I certainly don't.
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