Re: Mathematics skills for writing a compiler?

"Donald F. McLean" <dmclean@stsci.edu>
13 Sep 2004 12:31:10 -0400

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From: "Donald F. McLean" <dmclean@stsci.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Sep 2004 12:31:10 -0400
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
References: 04-09-063
Keywords: practice
Posted-Date: 13 Sep 2004 12:31:10 EDT

The college that I graduated from had a class "Automata and Formal
Languages" that covered all of the math theory. I took Compiler design
first and had no trouble. (I did take it the following semester and
found it both interesting and illuminating, but not strictly
necessary)


I don't think that numerical methods would be an actual requirement (you
can find a library to handle all of the really hard math).


I don't recognize the acronym DFS though.




Jack wrote:


> What mathematical skills do I need in order to build an "average" compiler?
> such as numerical methods, CFG, DFS.... etc

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