Compilers... What do I get out of it

 Hello everyone, in today's blog we'll be discussing an article written by author Saumya Debray. In this article Saumya states the importance of learning compiler design for a computer science student, I found myself very related to how he says that as students we often see this class as knowledge that won't do much for us in our professional lives, since I really don't see myself designing and coding compilers for a living. But it is quite interesting to change perspective on the matter with this article, see it as practices and knowledge to be used universally, not only to design a compiler but to any form of translation. 

Personally the one example that stood out the most to me was the database implemented for hospitals in which they would use a query system based on natural language. This could be something very useful under a lot of situations and for starters making it easier for a doctor to do their job. The whole process behind it and how Saumya explains it made it easier for me to have a better understanding of how a compiler works. To be honest, everything that goes behind it seemed very mysterious and complex, I didn't fully understand how they worked and which is the process that a developer goes through when implementing or designing a new compiler. The concept of tokenization and optimization were the two that seemed to me as the most helpful for other situations and translation problems to be solved.

The article fulfills what it sets out to do, in a way I came out of it with a new perspective and approach to the class, seeking to learn all there is to know about compilers and figure out how to translate it into what I normally do as a programmer in other type of tasks and projects.