Same here, at FU Berlin. We spent several weeks on LR and LALR parsers and such and, IIRC, even more than a week on regular expressions. Somehow we talked about

Same here, at FU Berlin. We spent several weeks on LR and LALR parsers and such and, IIRC, even more than a week on regular expressions. Somehow we talked about two-address and three-address instructions, but never seemed to do any code generation, and certainly no optimization. It was very disappointing.