
Tech Talk: Crafting Interpreters With Bob Nystrom
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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The Benefits of Writing an Interpreter
The short answer is like, I just think programming languages are super cool, right? Who wouldn't want to make a programming language? It's awesome, super fun. One of the things that one of the categories of software that I find most rewarding is ones where I write a program of some finite length and it can do a combinatorial number of interesting things. So you write an interpreter, maybe it's a thousand lines of code, and you can throw an infinite number of programs at it and it can interpret all of them.
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