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Stevey's Tech Talk

STT E45: Compilers, why learn them?

Apr 25, 2022
44:09

Hey folks,

Apologies for 2 weeks of missing podcasts.  The episode 2 weeks ago was all coding and didn't make much sense to just do the audio for.  And last week I was busy redoing my recording studio cabling and equipment.

In this episode I talk about compilers:  a bit about how they work, and a lot about how useful they have been at various points in my career. They are a fun subject and it was an easy episode to record!

I mentioned a book, The Essentials of Programming Languages. It's the one by Friedman, Wand et al.  I reaaally enjoyed working through this book, although I did study Scheme in other books first.

I also mentioned the bare-bones user manual for my Wyvern game's autobag minilanguage:  It's at https://ghosttrack.com/autobag if you want to have a look.

I hope this episode was interesting. It's a challenging topic to talk about at a high level without getting bogged down in the details.  I did a lot of editing in this episode, but it may have needed more. Let me know!

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