Compilers are like Fish

• The closer you look, the harder it is to define one.
• Hank Green video on how we are all fish, and there’s not a great way to draw a boundary such that all things inside it are fish and all things outside it are not fish.
• Same with compilers.
• Key insight: The insights from compilers can be applied to other domains. It’s better to see things for what they are and understand why compiler principles ought to apply to those domains.