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Such a sensible syntax, right? The official ARM docs use it too. Not even sure who invented it, ARM or GAS. Anyway, that's another good reason to start with ARM. There's also legac…

ARM32 is much simpler to explain compared to ARM64. Registers are so much simpler, conditional execution is orthogonal, three-operand form is consistent. ARM64 made all the right p…

Yeah, and picking a language was the hardest decision for the book. I wrote the compiler prototype for it in OCaml, but using it for the book would have narrowed its audience unnec…

Thank you for such a favorable comparison with the classics!

Thanks for your early support and going through the draft! I'm glad you've been enjoying it!

In the book, lexing and parsing is done from scratch. I think tools like Flex and Bison are very handy, but for the book, my focus is on learning value.

So far, I got away with "In the following figure…"