Are you a language wonk? Do you want to be?

Recently I've had the pleasure to make the acquaintance of Walter
Bright, one of the heavyweights of compiler construction, and the creator of the
D language (among other things), and he's been great in giving me some hand-holding
on some compiler-related topics and ideas.

Thus, it seems appropriate to point out that Walter's willing to give lots of other
people the same kind of attention and focus, in
exchange for your presence in gorgeous Astoria, OR. The Astoria Compiler Construction
Seminar is Walter teaching you about the nuts and bolts of building a compiler, from
start to finish:

• Introduction to Compilers
• Lexing and Parsing
• Semantic Analysis
• Intermediate Representation
• Interpreters
• Optimization
• Code Generation
• Special Topics (thread-local storage, exception-handling, and so on)
• Building a Compiler for .NET

If you've got any interest whatsoever in building a language, but you're not sure
how or where to get started, this seems like a great chance to sit down with one of
the "big boys" and find out how to do it. And it doesn't hurt that Walter's
an extremely pleasant guy to hang out with, either. :-) (It doesn't hurt that he was
the one who created the original Empire game, either. So at least you know you'll
have something to play during the breaks.)

Go. Sign up. You'll thank me later.

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