cognitive psychology. PhD 
I've been looking at a lot of old systems built around the problem of text editing, which similarly feels a bit obsolete: Oberon, Canon Cat, Scott Kim's Viewpoint (text editing still seems more relevant than file management today, at least)https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/979967626620256256 …
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I think about this suggestion from Scott a lot. I kind of think every CS undergrad should be required to implement a toy Xanadu.pic.twitter.com/K90hyUpfdu
Do CS students design compilers to learn principles of programming? My compilers course just taught... compilers. Parsing, type-checking, codegen. And it's not design, more implementation. I feel like this what a PL course should teach, but rarely does.
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I also don't mean to put down the idea--I think implementing some systems can be illuminating. If anything, I think all CS undergrads should implement a multiplayer game, since that covers graphics, systems, networking, AI, scripting, event-based programming, ...
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I think I finally truly understood C pointers once I had to write my own C compiler.
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