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That criticism seems pretty tangential to BYOL's stated goal of learning C.
by Avshalom 4y ago
That criticism seems pretty tangential to BYOL's stated goal of learning C.
- hayley-patton 4y ago"C programs crashing is a fact of life. If anything goes wrong the operating system kicks them out" is _very_ bad advice for someone learning C. The introduction reads > This book is for anyone wanting to learn C, or who has once wondered how to build their own programming language. which I interpret as having "design a language" as another goal. Arguably the book succeeds at building a programming language, but it mangles the theory in unhelpful ways, e.g. lexical scoping isn't a static analysis per chapter 16, nor is parsing the consumption of an abstract syntax tree per chapter 10.