5 ms·

I just wanted to point out that the author of this article is a high school student. http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/about.html http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/about.h

I just wanted to point out that the author of this article is a high school student. http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/about.html http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/about.html

tdees40 12y ago
Wow, "writing lots of compilers and type checkers" definitely wasn't on my radar screen when I was in high school.
- pjmlp 12y ago
  I did an informatics technical degree on high school back in the early 90's in Portugal. We had introduction to parsing and basic language processing.
- Jtsummers 12y ago
  Me neither, but a classmate was reading over/working through the dragon book our senior year of high school. There's a reason he went to CMU and I didn't. On the other hand, compilers (well, a less than formal version) was the third CS course topic at GT. Definitely approachable, with good faculty/staff, as an early topic of study.
- zura 12y ago
  I was reading Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler" txt file. Good memories :)
camus2 12y ago
How does it make the OP less relevant? i know pretty smart programmers that are still in high school. And tt doesnt matter, the guy obviously knows Go.
- taylorlapeyre 12y ago
  My implication was that the article was very professional and I was quite impressed that it was written by somebody so young. I think that it makes it more relevant, not less.
Haul4ss 12y ago
That's pretty remarkable, actually. I see he's going to CMU in the fall, which is a win for CMU. He's obviously a smart dude.
awj 12y ago
Why do you feel this is worth pointing out?
- taylorlapeyre 12y ago
  I think that it is very impressive that he is having these thoughts at such a young age. That's it, I wasn't saying that his opinion should be discredited!
  - awj 12y ago
    Yeah, indeed. I think with the flak this article is taking elsewhere in the comments people might be reading this as an argument against him. I know that was my first impression, glad I asked for clarification.

I just wanted to point out that the author of this article is a high school student. http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/about.html http://jozefg.bitbucket.org/about.html

tdees40 12y ago

Wow, "writing lots of compilers and type checkers" definitely wasn't on my radar screen when I was in high school.

pjmlp 12y ago
I did an informatics technical degree on high school back in the early 90's in Portugal. We had introduction to parsing and basic language processing.
Jtsummers 12y ago
Me neither, but a classmate was reading over/working through the dragon book our senior year of high school. There's a reason he went to CMU and I didn't. On the other hand, compilers (well, a less than formal version) was the third CS course topic at GT. Definitely approachable, with good faculty/staff, as an early topic of study.
zura 12y ago
I was reading Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler" txt file. Good memories :)

camus2 12y ago

How does it make the OP less relevant? i know pretty smart programmers that are still in high school. And tt doesnt matter, the guy obviously knows Go.

taylorlapeyre 12y ago
My implication was that the article was very professional and I was quite impressed that it was written by somebody so young. I think that it makes it more relevant, not less.

Haul4ss 12y ago

That's pretty remarkable, actually. I see he's going to CMU in the fall, which is a win for CMU. He's obviously a smart dude.

awj 12y ago

Why do you feel this is worth pointing out?

taylorlapeyre 12y ago
I think that it is very impressive that he is having these thoughts at such a young age. That's it, I wasn't saying that his opinion should be discredited!
- awj 12y ago
  Yeah, indeed. I think with the flak this article is taking elsewhere in the comments people might be reading this as an argument against him. I know that was my first impression, glad I asked for clarification.