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#12I love this! Amazing work!
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I'd say C is actually a pretty good choice for an educational project like this. Having to write out all of your data structures by hand and manage your memory manually is a good learning experience, and since you're not writing serious production code, you don't have to worry too much about making mistakes.
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I'd say C is actually a pretty good choice for an educational project like this. Having to write out all of your data structures by hand and manage your memory manually is a good learning experience, and since you're not writing serious production code, you don't have to worry too much about making mistakes.
_someone_ has to learn to build runtimes
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C is like a high level assembly language. It maps very closely to how the computer actually runs programs. That, and it’s simplicity, make it a great way to learn.
It’s not usually a great idea for production code anymore, but for learning it’s fantastic.
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C is like a high level assembly language. It maps very closely to how the computer actually runs programs. That, and it’s simplicity, make it a great way to learn. It’s not usually a great idea for production code anymore, but for learning it’s fantastic.
That old chestnut. C is nothing remotely like an assembly language, of any kind. It is a low-level programming language, but only compared to most languages. Disassemble some compiled C code sometime -- it's another world entirely.
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#18Nicely done.
You're a freshman, picked up C over the summer, and have already built an interpreter for a language that you haven't officially been taught yet, and have a blog with a couple dozen posts.
I'll be honest, people with achievements like yours make me feel pretty worthless.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
C is like a high level assembly language. It maps very closely to how the computer actually runs programs. That, and it’s simplicity, make it a great way to learn. It’s not usually a great idea for production code anymore, but for learning it’s fantastic.
That old chestnut. C is nothing remotely like an assembly language, of any kind. It is a low-level programming language, but only compared to most languages. Disassemble some compiled C code sometime -- it's another world entirely.
I’ve programmed in both assembly and C, among other things. I stand by it, C is much closer to the machine than most languages.
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#20Congratulations, this is great. Have you thought about spending some time writing down what you had to learn and how you went about figuring out what to learn in order to do this? I think it'd be even more interesting than the language itself.
Yeah actually, stay tuned! :D