Making Compiler Design Relevant for Students

All the process about making a compiler seems like a complicated task but the article refers to divers examples and not all are about programming, in my opinion the idea of a translation is a really good simplification of the compilers function.

I mean, just like we do when we are speaking a different language the basic process, at least at the start, is just think what we want to say and then decompose the phrase in words, then the word is chaged to the other languge and then all the pieces are glued together to make a logic sentence.

Just like the article mations I used to think about compilers as just an exotic topic but it seems to have lots of abstractios usefull for many of the problems, that are usually faced for programmers, in the creation of the frontend of the software.

The example in the article was the traslation of latex to html, in this case, there are some similarities but the real goal about it is to extract the problem and then put it in some other languge.

At the start I have not idea that compiler design had phases, because most of the time we make programs and if they work is the end of tghe job but if they do not, well, scream to the computer o just fix it with brute force but the compiles needs to do some other things, the phases of a compiler are:

• ·       Lexical Analysis and parsing
• ·       Semantic Analysis
• ·       Code generation
• ·       Code parsing

If we learn and, actually the most important part,we undestand the steps then we can began to interpret the sentences, put it in a context and identify the meaning of the “words” to finally make a solutiosn, not only to a digital problems and I think is the real objective of the subject.