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The more you do yourself, the more you will learn. If you're just learning and not trying to build the next big programming language, try and do some of the low
by ioddly 12y ago
The more you do yourself, the more you will learn. If you're just learning and not trying to build the next big programming language, try and do some of the low level stuff yourself. Write a parser, write a garbage collector and a virtual machine, re-write the compiler in the language itself. Go hog wild.
- smilepet_26 12y agothat's a great suggestion and seems to be useful tip to get started to writing a new language on our own.
- JadeNB 12y ago> The more you do yourself, the more you will learn. This is true once you complete the project, but it seems like it can be dangerous: if you start off your mission to make a programming language by soldering components on a breadboard, say, then, you will learn something, to be sure, but you will probably get so embroiled in preliminaries that you will never learn what you intended to learn. (Of course, sometimes learning something other than what you intended is a good thing ….)