[enqk]

I find Kartik Agaram's writings interesting with respect to that problem.

http://akkartik.name/about

[akkartik]

Thanks for saving me the decision of whether or not to do another shameless plug :)

I recently wrote this (in a very similar thread to this one) about the tension between real-world and teaching software: https://www.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/4jmb88/open_sour...