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jacquesm on Oct 12, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lambda Calculus

I figure you can't really say you understand a programming language until you can re-implement it from the ground up.

So that's my intermediate goal.

Spot on about C/C++ through the assembler route by the way, if there is one excellent way to really grok those then it is via the -S flag.

fogus on Oct 12, 2009 [–]

Implementing a language is complicated enough that by doing so you fully learn the implemented language AND the language used for implementation. Win-win!

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