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0 pointsstevekemp7y ago0 comments

I learned all about parsing, lexing, and ASTs. I did that by writing a toy language, then creating a BASIC interpreter in golang.

Beyond that I did more messing about with AWS, and found that while I knew a fair bit theres a lot of devil in the details ..

Regardless this was a good year, the previous year I'd started working with ESP8266 & Arduino devices. So it was nice to get back into pure-software development, instead of hardware. (Hardware is rewarding, challenging, and a lot of fun. But I found waiting weeks/months for parts to arrive a bit of a pain.)

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hellovic7y ago· 1 in thread

Did you use book/online courses/tutorial for learning parsing, lexing etc.

stevekempOP7y ago

I read this ebook:

https://interpreterbook.com/

That walks you through the process of creating a simple language. My version has since been extended a fair bit:

https://github.com/skx/monkey

The writing is clear, and I was familiar with the broad concepts already. (In the past I've written toy interpreters for FORTH, and similar simple languages, but usually in an adhoc fashion.)

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