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From: dar@nucleus.UUCP (Dario Alcocer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Theory vs. Practice in CS Education
Summary: while (input()){process(); output();}
Message-ID: <5484@nucleus.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 89 02:42:57 GMT
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In article <1989Nov17.090716.11068@cs.eur.nl>, reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer) writes:
> rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) writes:
> 
> >In article <4251@pegasus.ATT.COM> Paul S. R. Chisholm writes:
> 
> >>What good are compiler courses?  Well, when writing code I want to run
> 
> >[text deleted...]
> 
> >If you wish to specialize in designing compilers, take the course.
> 
> Didn't someone once say:
> 	each program is in fact an interpreter for a language (where the
> 	language defines all legal input to the program, and the semantics
> 	of the various inputs)
> If noone ever said it, how about your comments ?
> 
> -- 
> Reino R. A. de Boer
> Erasmus University Rotterdam ( Informatica )
> e-mail: reino@cs.eur.nl

In the book "The Unix Programming Environment", by B. W. Kernighan and
R. Pike (ch. 8, pg. 233):



	"We chose to implement a language because it's
	representative of problems encountered in large
	programs.  Furthermore, many programs can profitably
	be viewed as languages that convert a systematic
	input into a sequence of actions and outputs, so
	we want to illustrate the language development tools."



-- Dario Alcocer
dar@nucleus.mi.org