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Re: "Documentation by paper"
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Barada <peter@the-baradas.com> writes:
Peter> Another possiblity is to have one file that has the definition
Peter> of terms, as well as bibliography entries for the papers and
Peter> books that the algorithms were derived from. That way if
Peter> someone(like me who took his last compiler course twenty years
Peter> ago using the dragon book) wanted to learn more about GCC and
Peter> especially its optimizers, they could use the bibliography as
Peter> a guide to the relavent papers and books.
I would welcome that too. None of the terms that have been argued
about here were ones that showed up in my 1970s vintage compiler
course or textbooks. Telling people to read up in modern texts is
fine, but it would help to know which ones. I assume it is still
true, as it was in the 1970s, that some compiler textbooks are fit
only for kindling.
paul