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But it helps.

One of my regrets is life is I never took a compiler class, I work at a university and can take a free class once a semester so I may rectify it this fall.

Still I taught myself a lot of that in the school of hard knocks.

I learned to read at three and got crazy well read checking out ten books a week from the public library as a kid. (Started my heavy backpack training!)

A lot of people fall for charlatans like L. Ron Hubbard and Eliezer Yudkowsky because they aren’t well read and don’t have anything to compare Dianetics and Sequences to.



What sort of compiler class were you looking for?

You can work through a book that uses a more modern approach like Siek's Essentials of Compilation which comes in Racket [0] and Python flavors.

Teach Yourself CS also has some more classic recommendations [1].

You may also be interested in using a language from the ML family [2] to implement a compiler [3].

Cornell also has a self-paced graduate level course [4].

This page also has a bunch of recs [5].

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/essentials-of-compila...

[1] https://teachyourselfcs.com/#languages

[2] https://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/

[3] https://a.co/d/2EhiUDM

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39577878

[5] https://steshaw.org/plt/




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