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(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)


does this matter? As Steve Yegge said, "If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work." Yegge describes 8 problems that can be solved with compilers (or equally well with interpreters, or with Yegge's typical heavy dosage of cynicism). Scheme syntax is different from most other programming languages.

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