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Re:I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming la... by tylerhowarth on Friday April 13, 2012 @09:33PM (#3839554)
I am in a principles of programming languages class currently, and we are doing very similar work. We are writing interpreters, type checkers, and more for a new language our teacher has defined. We are doing all of this in Scala.
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Re:I told my 2nd year CS students to create a programming la... by dovyski on Friday April 13, 2012 @10:03PM (#3839611)
Cool! It looks like you are creating a more robust interpreter. The one I told them to implement is simpler (no type check, for instance).
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