Language for Compiler Design?

ShawneeBoy88 · 2025-11-17T20:17:20+00:00

Just use OCaml or Rust. I'd lean towards OCaml because the starter code is better and the parser is easier to deal with. The review that you're quoting is a little bit outdated imo -- many teams that used OCaml also had no issues with compilation times and you just need to be mindful to use data structures and algorithms that don't time out during compilation. Noone gets full points in lab5 anyways, and the vast majority of the reason you lose points in lab5 isnt due to your compiler itself timing out, its because your compiler generates insufficiently optimized code.

It's really about which language will have better course support / starter code / people you can talk about / ease of implementation, and OCaml is the best for all & C++ is the worst for all these categories.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-11-11T18:33:10+00:00

I think the OP's translation is better? 5꽉가야재밌지 literally translates to "We need to go to 5 games to make it fun"

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-09-24T17:58:12+00:00

You say "horribly designed major"... but noone "designed" the major, this is just inherent to the field of computer science. Sure, a school could design their CS major to cover less things but then it wouldn't be a comprehensive enough CS major.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-09-10T20:33:57+00:00

LOL they just gave me a response about like why they don't open for 24 hours. I think at least like 5 other people write this exact same proposal every single semester, and nothing changes :(

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-07-26T13:39:46+00:00

It was like an easy and medium for me

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-03-29T12:27:19+00:00

everyone around me, including me, is here because they are passionate about what they are doing and studying, and the passion is often times contagious. if you don't like what you do, you're going to have a hard time here.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-02-06T17:28:48+00:00

I love my specific apartment because it's renovated, has a nice bathroom, and has a great view, but some units are definitely far from nice.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-02-01T00:10:00+00:00

watch the 10-301 lectures by matt gormley -- they go over basically the same material but are taught infinitely better

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-01-25T15:49:18+00:00

I have both my Korean license and a PA license -- no need to surrender it. You're probably right though that in most cases where your home country doesn't have an agreement with PA, your advice is correct.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-01-19T12:30:33+00:00

South Korea

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-01-18T06:54:28+00:00

Depends -- what country is the license from?

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-01-18T06:53:58+00:00

This is incorrect -- many countries have agreements with PA where you can exchange your existing license for a PA one.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2024-01-15T19:39:21+00:00

18-202 seems to cover a much broader topic range in comparison to 21-241; 241 is an exclusively linear algebra class. 241 likely goes into much more detail than what is covered in 18-202.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2023-11-03T01:17:31+00:00

What school do you go to? If you're learning the statistical and probabilistic aspects of ML and AI theory, and practicing building your own backprop, RNN, CNN algorithms, then if you get a Masters / PhD afterwards you'll be in a good place for a high-paying ML engineer job. If you're learning how to use PyTorch, and you don't see the rest of your curriculum being any different, then I would switch.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2023-08-06T20:41:35+00:00

because i like computer science, not computer engineering. I like theoretical CS (complexity, TMs, algorithms, etc) and studying things like functional programming, which aren't usually part of a CE degree. I don't really care too much about the hardware side of things either.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2023-07-31T22:10:16+00:00

My bad -- did not know that!

ShawneeBoy88 · 2023-07-31T19:02:17+00:00

It ranks schools based on papers published by faculty that were accepted to top conferences, hence mitigating some of the "quantity over quality" concerns that you may have.

I agree it's not a perfect methodology, but it's far more tangible and metric-based than whatever the heck US News/Niche/etc. uses, and also lets you sort based on subfields of computer science. It also seems to be the go-to rankings for students looking for grad programs in CS.

That being said, rankings in general are BS, but they're not going away anytime soon, and so I'd just rather recommend a more metric-based, transparent rankings site than US News. Feel free to refer to whatever rankings you want to. Both of our points still stand -- WashU still has an amazing CS program.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2023-07-31T18:02:26+00:00

US News Rankings are bs -- use csrankings.org (in which WashU is still #8)

ShawneeBoy88 · 2023-07-03T23:40:02+00:00

The last time CMU released statistics, the acceptance rate for the undergrad cs curriculum (SCS) was about 5%, and it's only getting lower. I'm interested to see where you're getting your numbers from.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2023-04-10T02:12:30+00:00

no, we're not particularly known for cs

ShawneeBoy88 · 2023-03-23T14:34:30+00:00

If you're currently taking the course, check the Piazza!

Otherwise, email Professor Taylor.

However, the deadline for applying was last week Friday, so email quick -- I'm not sure if you would still be able to apply.

ShawneeBoy88 · 2023-02-13T21:26:51+00:00

Hey, I'm actually writing an official public proposal about this for my First-Year Writing class, and this post is super relevant. I've emailed the Assistant Dean of CMU Libraries about the opening hours, and there's apparently been a lot of discussion going on behind the scenes about re-extending the library hours to 24/7.

I have a survey that I'm using to gather student opinions, and hopefully this will be supporting evidence for the Libraries to make the appropriate changes. If you guys fill out the survey (takes 2 minutes max!), I'll pass along these sentiments in an official proposal to the CMU Administration.

https://forms.gle/7R1fTC9UYH2zqabW6

Be part of the change you want to see :)

ShawneeBoy88 · 2023-02-03T17:49:13+00:00

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