Not Lisp again (2009)

Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by lixtra on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:13AM (#18309367)

I’m too young (or studied in the wrong time or place) so my CS teachers failed to impress me to such an extent.

However, I very well remember reading the Compilerbau book by N. Wirth and the awe I felt. It’s just a few pages but it was a revelation.

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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by gnulinux on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:45AM (#18310308)

I'm young too (21), I was taught programming in scheme. In UC Berkeley the very first CS class (called "SICP" lol) is in Python and Scheme. https://cs61a.org/

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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by sures on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:29AM (#18309506)

Can you share the name of the book? Is it "Compiler Construction" by Niklaus Wirth?

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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by tralarpa on Friday October 26, 2018 @12:01PM (#18310458)

Check also his other books: Algorithms and Data Structures, Programming in Oberon, Project Oberon, etc.

They are all available on the ETH website and his homepage (in various revisions). Basically everything you need to know about imperative programming on CS bachelor level for free.

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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by lixtra on Friday October 26, 2018 @02:58PM (#18311879)

Indeed, a small search yields: https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764672

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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by phoe-krk on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:33AM (#18309541)

Yes - "Compilerbau" from German is literally "building compilers".

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