I don't remember reading it but from the ToC & glimpsing at some examples/exercises, it definitely fits in the "Tutorials" category I was thinking of. It's alw

I don't remember reading it but from the ToC & glimpsing at some examples/exercises, it definitely fits in the "Tutorials" category I was thinking of. It's always delightful to see competent authors demonstrate how much sophistication is achievable in about 100 lines of simple code, by comparison with the "the Dog class inherits from the Animal class" type of examples, or "real-life" codebases. This book is definitely in the former category. > I dearly wish there'd be more books like it for other languages. This all reminds me of a well-known regular expression matcher[0], in about 30 lines of C, featured in "The Practice of Programming"[1]. More generally, even without dedicated books, there are common simple-but-sophisticated type of programs that are great to get to know a language, once you have basic programming skills: standard UNIX tools (cat(1), grep(1), etc.), λ-calculus interpreter, LISP interpreter, raytracer, etc. One can often find online versions serving as "solutions." [0]: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/beautiful.html https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/be... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming