[Edinburgh-pm] Thursday!

Murray perl at minty.org
Wed Jun 27 07:49:14 PDT 2012


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:22:59PM +0100, Miles Gould wrote:
> On 27/06/12 11:56, Chris Yocum wrote:
> >>I'll be there, and I look forward to the compiler-writing chat. :-)
> >
> >So am I as I am kind of writing a grammar to turn into a compiler (at
> >some point, blah blah)
> 
> Did I mention that the front end is the easy bit? :-)

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
right?

Have you considered writing a game, that in turn lets game-players write the
compiler?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/09/18/computer-gamers-solve-problem-in-aids-research-that-puzzled-scientists-for-years/


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