10 points | by RebelPotato a day ago ago
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Writing a tiny interpreter is one of those exercises that teaches you more about programming languages than months of just using them
This is a yawner, Postscript (the language) is very simple, given run of the mill interpreter machinery. An actual working Postscript implementation is about graphics and font rendering, not the language interpreter. That stuff is still not trivial.
the amount of care to detail in the base language is great though. reading PLRM is a joy
Yet, it's going to be novel fun for some people. Let's celebrate today's lucky 10000. https://xkcd.com/1053/
Writing a tiny interpreter is one of those exercises that teaches you more about programming languages than months of just using them
This is a yawner, Postscript (the language) is very simple, given run of the mill interpreter machinery. An actual working Postscript implementation is about graphics and font rendering, not the language interpreter. That stuff is still not trivial.
the amount of care to detail in the base language is great though. reading PLRM is a joy
Yet, it's going to be novel fun for some people. Let's celebrate today's lucky 10000. https://xkcd.com/1053/