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Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”

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Re: Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”

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Post by zengid »

roel_v wrote: post #30

How does this work? Spending 4 years, full time from what it seems, on a book with a (let's face it) niche audience. While having (again, it seems from the post) a family with children, living in a first world country, flying regularly (I'm using this as a shortcut for 'getting out of the house for things more expensive than a hike in the woods'). So that's an opportunity cost of 200k for a book that would a runaway…

I don't think it was full-time. Bob's day job is working on the Dart compiler, last I heard.

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Post by kyllo »

roel_v wrote: post #30

How does this work? Spending 4 years, full time from what it seems, on a book with a (let's face it) niche audience. While having (again, it seems from the post) a family with children, living in a first world country, flying regularly (I'm using this as a shortcut for 'getting out of the house for things more expensive than a hike in the woods'). So that's an opportunity cost of 200k for a book that would a runaway…

The author has a full-time job at Google and apparently wrote the book as a passion project, not for the money. The knowledge within is an incredible contribution to the public good.

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Post by s3cur3 »

formalsystem wrote: post #23

The author's previous book Game Programming Patterns is 1000x better than the Gang of Four book. Really looking forward to going through this.

Agreed. I got a lot out of Game Programming Patterns. My notes, if anyone wants a summary, are here:

https://tylerayoung.com/2017/01/23/notes-on-game-programming...

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Post by bhrgunatha »

airstrike wrote: post #3

> I used to do graphic design, and I have this weird tic where any time I see something that looks handwritten, I look for multiple instances of the same letter to see if they are different or if the design just used a handwriting font. It’s almost always a handwriting font and I die a little inside to see the illusion evaporate. Not a graphic designer, but I do the exact same thing and feel the exact same way... Hap…

It's a fascinating video but what struck me the _most_ was the manual kerning of the handwriting after it was scanned. I know I'd have just copy/pasted all those identical echo() cells. Amazing to watch.

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Post by battery_cowboy »

moonchild wrote: post #22
battery_cowboy wrote: post #17

> Writing this all out makes me sound like a crazy person. What the hell am I doing with my life? Or, more importantly, what could I have been doing instead of doing all that? That's why your book is so good! Singular focus on one subject like this either causes insanity or genius. Examples: redis, Linux, sqlite, dwarf fortress, etc. I (believe, not sure) all were started by a single person who was insane by any meas…

CMIIW, but I believe most of those projects were started with a relatively small (and reasonable) scope.

Okay, well, there are plenty of others to choose from! I'm just trying to say that the result of this insanity was great.
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