Making compiler design relevant for sudents
This blog is about "Making Compiler Design Relevant for Students who will (Most Likely) Never Design a Compiler" article by Saumya Debray and is an article about the importance for students of compilers and the applications. Actually, compiler courses are part of Computer Science´s carrers in some universities. And Saumya says that students dont take compiler as a serius topic, none as other courses like security or network, and as a personal opinion, i dont think this course is useless or is less important as others. If it would, is stupid that many schools require the course. By the way, a compiler is a translator between machine language and our language throught 5 steps. One of them is the DSL process. The author gives some examples of the usage of the compilers, like the use of it for graphics, or for exampletrh translation between latex to html. And that's pretty interesting because you maybe know new applications that probably you dont think they could be implem...