
Building Your Own C Interpreter (1989) - elvis70
https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/building-your-own-c-interpreter/184408184
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twh270
I feel very blessed to have been a subscriber to DDJ in the late 80s and early
90s. I learned about data structures and algorithms; multi-tasking; windowing
systems; programming languages; operating system internals; and so much more.
And it all came in bite-sized chunks (articles and listings) that could be
understood in a few (or several) hours.

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jgwil2
Looks like something went really wrong with the HTML in this article - almost
every paragraph has link styling and leads to a 404 page when clicked on.

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elvis70
Here is a retranscription of the article without the qwirks:
[https://impythonist.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/building-
your-o...](https://impythonist.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/building-your-own-c-
interpreter/)

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wedowhatwedo
[https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_14/page/n52...](https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_14/page/n527/mode/2up)

Page 528

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justinlloyd
Around 1980-ish DrDobbs Journal published a series of articles on developing
your own C compiler which lead me to writing my own C compiler for the BBC
Micro in 6502 that became self-hosting on April 24th, 1982. It is thanks to
DrDobbs that I learnt to program in C.

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jhbadger
The author of that article also wrote an interesting book entitled "Born to
Code in C" which deals with various small projects in C -- this interpreter, a
text editor, a simple windowing system, etc. It is somewhat dated because it
was targeting MS-DOS, but it was a fun read at the time.

[https://openlibrary.org/works/OL720035W/Born_to_Code_in_C?ed...](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL720035W/Born_to_Code_in_C?edition=borntocodeinc00schi_cm4)

