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Re:Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3r... by psuedobrain on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:19PM (#33929121)
am i the only one for which programming language textbooks, papers, blog posts, etc. in racket are really hard to follow? the fact that the languages that is being operated on often looks exactly like racket makes it really hard to separate the two if i wanted to follow the tutorials in any other language.
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Re:Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3r... by oxff on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:34AM (#33930475)
I went through the previous version with Rust. It is almost entirely language agnostic. It could be in sign language.
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Re:Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3r... by skrishnamurthi on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:16PM (#33929507)
If you look at the book, you'll see that is not what it does, and for this reason.
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