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Who's Afraid Of Compilers?

Compiler

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The Tower of Abstractions Climbing Up

Programming has been around for a long time, maybe since the 50s. Languages are built on top of each other and become more abstracted as they go. Learning compilers gives you insight into how all languages tend to work. We're so high on this tower of abstractions that we barely ever notice.

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