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Yeah. My favorite are books that guide you through implementing complex systems projects from scratch, like Nora Sandler's "Writing a C compiler", or Sy Brand'
by xqb64 8mo ago
Yeah. My favorite are books that guide you through implementing complex systems projects from scratch, like Nora Sandler's "Writing a C compiler", or Sy Brand's "Building a Debugger". I wish they produced A LOT more of them.
- iberator 8mo agoThose are some new and very very shallow books. There better one's from 90" and 80".
- eager_learner 8mo agocare to name a few such good oldies?
- HackerThemAll 8mo agohttps://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Construction-Monographs-Computer-Science/dp/1461297311 https://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Construction-Monographs-Comp... This one is my favorite.
- cultofmetatron 8mo agomuch like swimming, it helps to start in the shallow end before you tread into deeper waters.
- xqb64 8mo agoThe central point behind this type of books isn't so much to build an enterprise-grade production-ready thing, but rather to bridge the delta between zero and having a working thing of sufficiently large complexity, which inevitably exists for someone who had never been there before. Having that in mind, I think these books are very valuable.