Rich Programmer Food (2007)
I&#x27;m a big Steve Yegge fan and I like most of his articles. I like this one too. But, some of them, like this one, leave me feeling a bit disheartened.<p>Okay, compilers are important, I get it. I would love to learn more about how they work. But - I never got a CS degree and I&#x27;m 10 years into my career. I&#x27;ve learned a lot of valuable stuff but I&#x27;m not going to go back to school just to make Steve happy.<p>So what do I do? What&#x27;s the best resource out there for me to learn &amp; grok something about compilers without working through 3 textbooks and watching a bunch of lectures? I like being able to learn something by applying it to my current work.<p>That&#x27;s how I learned about IP networking - I did sign up for a class, but I was a Jr. DevOps person at the time and so everything I learned could be immediately applied at work the next day or next week.