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That's disappointing. I don't have any stats, but I imagine 90% of beginners writing an interpreter (much less a compiler) start a lexer and parser and quit be
by xscott 4y ago
That's disappointing. I don't have any stats, but I imagine 90% of beginners writing an interpreter (much less a compiler) start a lexer and parser and quit before getting to the good stuff.
Skipping the tedium until you've got "hello world" and "factorial working" makes sense to me. You can always go fix the syntax later.
- morelisp 4y agoIf you don't include the parser, "factorial working" is going to be the same evaluating just about any scripting language. You don't see half the value in Lisp's syntax until you're writing the parser.