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Yes, but one does not need university to do so.

• PaulHoule 1y ago
  But it helps. One of my regrets is life is I never took a compiler class, I work at a university and can take a free class once a semester so I may rectify it this fall. Still I taught myself a lot of that in the school of hard knocks. I learned to read at three and got crazy well read checking out ten books a week from the public library as a kid. (Started my heavy backpack training!) A lot of people fall for charlatans like L. Ron Hubbard and Eliezer Yudkowsky because they aren’t well read and don’t have anything to compare Dianetics and Sequences to.
  • sn9 1y ago
    What sort of compiler class were you looking for? You can work through a book that uses a more modern approach like Siek's Essentials of Compilation which comes in Racket [0] and Python flavors. Teach Yourself CS also has some more classic recommendations [1]. You may also be interested in using a language from the ML family [2] to implement a compiler [3]. Cornell also has a self-paced graduate level course [4]. This page also has a bunch of recs [5]. [0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/essentials-of-compilation/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/essentials-of-compila... [1] https://teachyourselfcs.com/#languages https://teachyourselfcs.com/#languages [2] https://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/ https://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/ [3] https://a.co/d/2EhiUDM https://a.co/d/2EhiUDM [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39577878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39577878 [5] https://steshaw.org/plt/ https://steshaw.org/plt/