I borrowed a copy of the Dragon Book from a friend and I'm starting to go through some of the parsing exercises as a refresher. I think the undergraduate compil

I borrowed a copy of the Dragon Book from a friend and I'm starting to go through some of the parsing exercises as a refresher. I think the undergraduate compiler course I took used MIPS, so this might be a little different, but I always did like AMD. C++ is a big language, but as the FAQ says, we won't be writing an optimizer, and hey, we're not even writing an OS or designing a CPU, so we're only doing a tiny fraction of a complete implementation. I went to a C++ standards committee meeting once. They were having this fascinatingly complex discussion about temporary object lifetimes; it was so amazing how everyone there understood C++ so thoroughly. I'm hoping that taking this course will give me a better appreciation for their art.