Re:Show HN: Crafting Interpreters – A handbook for making pr...
by munificent on Sunday January 15, 2017 @09:04PM
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I did think about trying to sneak a type checker in here too, but it's just too much for a first book on languages and interpreters.
If you're looking for a book on statically typed functional languages, I think Appel's book[1] is canon. From what I've heard, the C and Java ones aren't very great. It's worth learning enough ML to get through that version because ML is clearly the language Appel thinks in.
If you're looking for a book on statically typed functional languages, I think Appel's book[1] is canon. From what I've heard, the C and Java ones aren't very great. It's worth learning enough ML to get through that version because ML is clearly the language Appel thinks in.
[1]: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/