Programming Throwdown, Episode 171, Compilers and Interpreters.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody.

This is super exciting.

We got this request from a listener.

Maybe later on the show, I'll find out, remind myself who it was.

But, you know, they said, how about you folks do compilers, interpreters?

I can't believe we haven't done this episode.

It seems so pivotal to everything we do in software engineering.

But yeah, here we are to lead the way. I i have to confess i don't know as much about compilers

interpreted as patrick so patrick's really going to carry the water here but i will add color

commentary as appropriate um and before we get into that i wanted to talk about monitor setups for a little bit.

So I was working next to somebody who had three monitors, like side by side by side,

and they had three different things going on.

You know, like they had one was for coding, the other one was for email.

And I thought this was really compelling.

I thought, oh, this is a great idea.

And I just can't get myself to do it.

Basically, I just have to have just one thing in front of me and just keep alt tabbing

to go to different things.

I'm not, I haven't figured out how to, you know,

drag from one desk screen to the other and do all of that.

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