I’ll write more about this soon. For now, you need to be writing your own programming language, and this book will show you how.
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I’ve read this book and it’s amazing. I will post a full review soon, along with tidbits of the languages I’m creating. Short version: in a few hours you’ll write an interpreter; in a weekend you’ll write both a native compiler and a bytecode compiler. By next Monday your language will be running on the JVM. It really is that awesome.
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Dude, thank you! And I am VERY glad to hear that it’s exciting you and getting you moving.
I found the book “perfectly flawed”, by which I mean every time I found a missing piece, a little bit of effort filled the gap and I ended up LEARNING something from it, and the next section built cleanly on that new learning. Good fun.