It's actually just a really good book about programming, with both "high-level" but also really practical advice (how to attack performance issues, how to debug

It's actually just a really good book about programming, with both "high-level" but also really practical advice (how to attack performance issues, how to debug). The examples are all really fun to build and extend. In fact I'm going through it again currently (I kickstarted a datalog compiler off of the prolog compiler chapter).