Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:10:25 +0000 From: Steve Roome <steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com> To: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lint Message-ID: <20001205111025.I22946@moose.bri.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012050316520.92196-100000@lcl12.cvzoom.net>; from dmmiller@cvzoom.net on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:20:52AM -0500 References: <20001204222001.A25490@mmap.nyct.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012050316520.92196-100000@lcl12.cvzoom.net>
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:20:52AM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: > I've always wondered what happened to the old BSD compiler. From what I > understand, it falls under AT&T licensing. But, you're right. I believe > a lot of universities (at least Penn State does) offer courses in > "compiler design and implentation". There ya go. It's a good topic for a > master's or PhD thesis, plus you could implement a new compiler to boot. I assume most university compiler design courses are about the same: We did a compiler course in our final year at Uni. It was supposed to be a group project to write a simple pascal type compiler, I wrote the entire thing myself, another team member did the documentation, and a third one did nothing. It took ages, it got one of the highest marks on the course. In comparison to a real-world compiler, It was a complete load of junk. Maybe as a PhD though, but it's not really new groundbreaking research in computer science is it, sounds like a hard slog to me. Unless the PhD side deals with register/memory type optimizations in some new and original way. No doubt there's hundreds of people who subscribe to these lists who think it's a remarkably simple job, and then they'll be those who think it's hard but acheivable. I think it would, in reality require a lot of very clued up people working closely together for an indefinite period of time. A bit like some folks who have been writing something called gcc for a while now. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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