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Crafting Interpreters by Robert NystromCrafting Interpreters by
Robert Nystrom


    Ever wanted to make your own programming language or wondered how
    they are designed and built?

    If so, this book is for you.

Crafting Interpreters contains everything you need to implement a
full-featured, efficient scripting language. You'll learn both
high-level concepts around parsing and semantics and gritty details
like bytecode representation and garbage collection. Your brain will
light up with new ideas, and your hands will get dirty and calloused.
It's a blast.

Starting from main(), you build a language that features rich syntax,
dynamic typing, garbage collection, lexical scope, first-class
functions, closures, classes, and inheritance. All packed into a few
thousand lines of clean, fast code that you thoroughly understand
because you write each one yourself.

The book is available in four delectable formats:

Print

640 pages of beautiful typography and high resolution hand-drawn
illustrations. Each page lovingly typeset by the author. The premiere
reading experience.

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eBook

Carefully tuned CSS fits itself to your ebook reader and screen size.
Full-color syntax highlighting and live hyperlinks. Like Alan Kay's
Dynabook but real.

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PDF

Perfectly mirrors the hand-crafted typesetting and sharp
illustrations of the print book, but much easier to carry around.

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Web

Meticulous responsive design looks great from your desktop down to
your phone. Every chapter, aside, and illustration is there. Read the
whole book for free. Really.

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About Robert Nystrom

I got bitten by the language bug years ago while on paternity leave
between midnight feedings. I cobbled together a number of hobby
languages before worming my way into an honest-to-God, full-time
programming language job. Today, I work at Google on the Dart
language.

Before I fell in love with languages, I developed games at Electronic
Arts for eight years. I wrote the best-selling book Game Programming
Patterns based on what I learned there. You can read that book for
free too.

If you want more, you can find me on Twitter (@munificentbob), email
me at bob at this site's domain (though I am slow to respond), read
my blog, or join my low frequency mailing list:

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