I mostly agree with you; however, SSA seems like overkill up until the point where your code becomes a tangled cyclomatic mess because of the lack of it (exampl

I mostly agree with you; however, SSA seems like overkill up until the point where your code becomes a tangled cyclomatic mess because of the lack of it (example[1]). I'd definitely include SSA in a modern course on compilers. [1]: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/master/src/Compilers/CSharp/Portable/CodeGen https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/master/src/Compilers/C...