Am 29.02.2008 um 18:01 schrieb Theodore H. Smith:
>> Wow, if you took it upon yourself to learn things like FSA and UTM
>> then more power to you.
>> Personally, outside college I would have never looked at such things.
>
> That makes no sense.
>
> If you never use a finite state automata... then what good is it?
> You've wasted months of your life.
No, not at all. Eventually, the day comes, when your knowledge is
useful.
E.g., during my studies, I wrote a compiler for a company. 20 Developers
worked for the company - intelligent people, all coding since years.
Anyway, no one was able to do this job.
Without my CS background and - equally important - my strong interest in
CS, I probably hadn't proposed this sub-project. Or I had failed to
notice,
that tools like LEX/YACC exist or that it is quite useful to start with
a certain syntax class.
Without this formal language background, the project had taken much
longer.
Note, that I speak of a period of time, where no one was able to google
for 'how to write a compiler' or download a complete Linux
distribution within
half an hour.
In general: All kind of people exist with or without a CS degree - some
are knowledgeable, some are not, some are nice, some are not, some can
manage
certain tasks, some can not.
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