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Even if you never write or work on a compiler in the sense of a program that turns source code text into assembly, many programs (or parts thereof) are compiler
by parenthesis 6y ago
Even if you never write or work on a compiler in the sense of a program that turns source code text into assembly, many programs (or parts thereof) are compilers in the sense of turning data or code in one form into another form.
- lou1306 6y agoThis is especially true of "code generators" or "source-to-source" transformation tools. I did write one of each recently, and often had to look up the compiler literature to go forward.