Currently reading this book on programming language design: https://books.google.de/books/about/Principles_of_Programming_Languages.html?id=d-Rxa3zwdXIC&redir_e

Currently reading this book on programming language design: https://books.google.de/books/about/Principles_of_Programming_Languages.html?id=d-Rxa3zwdXIC&redir_esc=y https://books.google.de/books/about/Principles_of_Programmin... It didn't really make it into the top 100 of programming books of the 80s/90s, I found it in my grandparents attic. Still, it is a really fascinating read for a young person today. People back then obviously had very different expectations on the future of CS. Even more fascinating I think is the broadness of thinking that programmers were expected to have. The exercises at the end of chapters in this book go further than anything I did during my studies, and while certainly hard, they never feel unfair either.