Crafting Interpreters

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Post by metadat » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 11:00 PM UTC

Crafting Interpreters
craftinginterpreters.com

Re: Crafting Interpreters

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Post by eternityforest » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 12:25 AM UTC

Mad respect to those with that kind of dedication, and everyone working to keep all the dev infrastructure going, but I'm super glad my "I want to make a language" phase was just a passing interest!

That's just a crazy amount of work!

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Post by brcmthrowaway » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 1:52 AM UTC

Is this book still relevant?

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Post by britannio » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 1:53 AM UTC

I just finished the second half, it's a great book! I recommend doing one or two of the proposed challenges in each chapter to reinforce your understanding of the content.

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Post by danielvaughn » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 1:54 AM UTC

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #3

Is this book still relevant?

Definitely. I just went through the first 60% or so and it's great. The language is java but it's easy to translate to other languages, which would be a good learning exercise in its own right.

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Post by SatvikBeri » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 1:55 AM UTC

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #3

Is this book still relevant?

It's a 3 year old book on compilers, so if it was ever relevant once, it surely still is today!

Re: Crafting Interpreters

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Post by metadat » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 1:56 AM UTC

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #3

Is this book still relevant?

Yes, very much so. Why wouldn't it be? Can you recommend a better resource for learning how to create a programming language from first principles?

I just started it today, which I why I felt the inclination to create this post.

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Post by chris37879 » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 2:06 AM UTC

I feel like this is a book most programmers should work through at some point or another. Doing so made me really appreciate just what's going on inside a compiler / language toolkit. It's also one of the most well written technical guides I've ever followed, it really helped me internalize the concepts, and they are useful all over the place, not just in compilers.

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Post by cageface » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 2:16 AM UTC

The author is one of the lead developers for Dart, which has evolved over time into a pretty nice language.

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Post by chasil » Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 2:27 AM UTC

The lex and yacc utilities are part of POSIX.2; is there any reason not to reach for them first?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/l...

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/y...

All the POSIX.2 standards for shell utilities can be found here:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/

The original introduction to lex and yacc was in the book by Kernigan and Pike:

https://scis.uohyd.ac.in/~apcs/itw/UNIXProgrammingEnvironmen...