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Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024)

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143 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 05 Apr 25 12:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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nate_martin ◴[05 Apr 25 16:05 UTC] No.43594464[source]▶
>The compiler itself is to be developed in OCaml.

These seems like a misstep that I've seen in a few other compiler implementation courses. For some reason these programming language professors always insist on completing the project in their personal favorite language (Haskell, OCaml, Standard ML, etc).

As a student this makes the project significantly more difficult. Instead of just learning how to implement a complier, you're also learning a new (and likely difficult) programming language.

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1. sn9 ◴[05 Apr 25 23:32 UTC] No.43597712[source]▶
You have to pick some language and some amount of students are likely to be new to it, so you might as well pick one that excels at the task of writing compilers as ML-family languages are.