TY - BOOK AU - Nystrom, Robert TI - Crafting interpreters SN - 9780990582939 AV - QA 76.7 .N97 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - [United States] PB - Genever Benning KW - INTERPRETERS N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Part I. Welcome -- Part II. A Tree-Walk Interpreter -- Part III. A Bytecode Virtual -- Backmatter -- Index N2 - This book teaches you everything you need to know to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You’ll learn both high-level concepts around parsing and semantics and gritty details like bytecode representation and garbage collection. Your brain will light up with new ideas, and your hands will get dirty and calloused. Starting from main(), you will build a language that features rich syntax, dynamic typing, garbage collection, lexical scope, first-class functions, closures, classes, and inheritance. All packed into a few thousand lines of clean, fast code that you thoroughly understand because you wrote each one yourself ER -