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I learned from the Dragon Book, decades ago. I already knew a lot of programming at that point, but I think most people writing compilers do. I'm curious if there really is an audience of people whose first introduction to programming is writing a compiler... I would think not, actually.


Wouldn't say a lot of people use it for an introduction to programming, but I've personally seen it appear quite early in the programmers journey.

I was first exposed to compilers as a learning subject as a mandatory 2nd year/1st semester course; with the Dragon Book as the main textbook...




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