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Wow this is a lengthy post is there anyone who could explain it to me? In other words I need some 'Crafting "Crafting Interpreters"' Interpreters
> 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.
> 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.
I will definitely buy the book once it is available :)
The day after I announced publicly I'm writing a book, my wife announced she was pregnant. I still continued writing but the motivation of the first day was halfed. Two weeks later, she told me it was twins, I quickly decided to get a stable job. I still wrote in the evening and weekends.
The kids came earlier then expected, and we had to spend 2 months in the NICU. Writing took a backseat. It turned into a day or two a week. When the kids finally came home... If I could get a paragraph in every week I was lucky.
At one year old, I check the last modified date on the files and it says a month ago. The quarantine helped me get a few paragraph here and there every night. But a good part of my routine has been reading the book to remember what it was about.
I'm really impressed with how Bob Nystrom managed to get 200k words in with life fiercely trying to get in the way.
Your first book was amazing, and I can't wait to get this one too in my hands.
> 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…
I suspect you're right, the focus probably helps with the process of distilling the core concepts (which are necessary to convey meaning), as well as the writing style. Picking the right analogies, the right illustrations, then executing them to perfection. I guess the passion for the topic shines through in his writing. Massive congrats to Bob!
By the way, does anyone know of any good tools to convert the whole site into a single PDF with working links? Using pandoc or something? If not, I'll probably sit down and write a script myself.