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Writing An Interpreter In Go by [Ball, Thorsten]

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by Thorsten Ball (Author)

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Writing An Interpreter In Go - Version 1.5 - Find out more at https://interpreterbook.com

In this book we will create a programming language together. We'll start with 0 lines of code and end up with a fully working interpreter for the Monkey programming language.

Step by step. From tokens to output. All code shown and included. Fully tested.

Buy this book to learn:

How to build an interpreter for a C-like programming language from scratch

What a lexer, a parser and an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) are and how to build your own

What closures are and how and why they work

What the Pratt parsing technique and a recursive descent parser is

What others talk about when they talk about built-in data structures

What REPL stands for and how to build one

Why this book?

This is the book I wanted to have a year ago. This is the book I couldn't find. I wrote this book for you and me. So why should you buy it? What's different about it, compared to other interpreter or compiler literature?

Working code is the focus. Code is not just found in the appendix. Code is the main focus of this book.

It's small! It has around 200 pages of which a great deal are readable, syntax-highlighted, working code.

The code presented in the book is easy to understand, easy to extend, easy to maintain.

No 3rd party libraries! You're not left wondering: "But how does tool X do that?" We won't use a tool X. We only use the Go standard library and write everything ourselves.

Tests! The interpreter we build in the book is fully tested! Sometimes in TDD style, sometimes with the tests written after. You can easily run the tests to experiment with the interpreter and make changes.

This book is for you if you...

learn by building, love to look under the hood

love programming and to program for the sake of learning and joy!

are interested in how your favorite, interpreted programming language works

never took a compiler course in college

want to get started with interpreters or compilers…

... but don't want to work through a theory-heavy, 800 pages, 4 pounds compiler book as a beginner

kept screaming "show me the code!" when reading about interpreters and compilers

always wanted to say: "Holy shit, I built a programming language!"

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File Size: 1450 KB
Print Length: 267 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 3982016118
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publication Date: December 11, 2016
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B01N2T1VD2
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F. Huynh

Lots of code to read and very accessible writing.

June 6, 2017

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I've read many books and web articles on writing compilers and interpreters and this is one of the most accessible yet. The author describes step by step how to construct a Top Down Operator Precedence or Pratt Parser. The book contains a lot of simple elegant code that is a joy to read. The book contains just enough theory to help you understand , but not too much that you get overwhelmed. Recommend to any one interested in how parsers work. I would love it if the author writes a second volume focused on optimization or compiling down to native instruction.

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Great book on creating a compiler and/ or interpreter

April 1, 2017

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Great book on creating a compiler and/ or interpreter. I went and learned the Go programming language elsewhere so I could read and understand the book. Keep in mind, even though the book is about writing an interpreter in Go, you can easily apply this to your programming language you want to use like I did.

He talks about Pratt parsers to parse expressions which I learned from this book is a good way to parse expressions.

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cprieto

It is what it says, a book about writing an interpreter in Go, and I loved it.

June 23, 2017

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This is probably the 9th book about compilers I bought and read in the last two years... And I loved it. The author is really honest with his introduction on why he wrote the book and what is expected to cover on it so you are completely warned from the beginning.

This is not a book to learn Go (there are better books about it) neither a book about how to design a programming language (there are many other academic books about it) or a book about different parsing algorithms (for that I recommend Language Implementation Patterns by Parr) but it is a book about writing an interpreter in Go, exactly as the title says, and I love it.

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Tyler Rhodes

A good book for getting started on writing an interpreter

May 16, 2018

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A good book for getting started on writing an interpreter. By the end of this book, you have a functioning little language and interpreter for the author's homegrown language called Monkey.

You learn the basics of lexing, parsing (using Pratt Parsing) and evaluation (tree walking) and how you can use these techniques in developing an interpreter.

This is a great book for getting started writing an interpreter and shows that it isn't some sort of magic. The code is written in Go, however, the techniques are covered in enough depth so that you can easily translate them.

I dock it one star because I felt the author could have left out writing all of the tests and left that to the downloadable code. While testing your code is a good thing, I feel that it's coverage in the book was a little too much. Leaving this out would have left a little more room to add more language features or perhaps show how to handle right associativity with the Pratt Parser.

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Jose

The author has a gift for teaching these complex programming subjects in an easily understandable way

June 12, 2018

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The most straightforward, step-by-step, and simple learning tool to master lexing, parsing, and evaluating your own programming language. The author has a gift for teaching these complex programming subjects in an easily understandable way. An awesome book indeed!

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Jinn

author is funny and relatable

May 16, 2018

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author is funny and relatable. the subject matter isn't as cool as something you'd get from say, the dragon book, but it's a good book and the author is easy to digest which is huge for me when reading technical material.

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September 2, 2017

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Exactly as described, a great book for an introduction to interpreters. Highly recommend for anyone looking to begin learning about the subject.

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Eric

Well done, easy to follow

February 22, 2017

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I'm a fairly knowledgeable Go developer (and old C guy too), and I really enjoyed this book. The author goes through the steps, and the approach is simple and clear. It has examples and is very easy to read through. It's recommended of course that you read and alongside you code/try the examples, however I read a large part of the book on my iPad and found it still very clear to follow along and understand. The author has also been good about updating it (prior to the printing and most recent version), and has blogged about the process of writing the book as well.
Nice work!

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Jason Larsen

This was a most excellent read and was very fun to follow along with

This was a most excellent read and was very fun to follow along with. I haven't taken compilers in forever, so it was fun to dive back in and get freshened back up, plus implement...Read more

Published 4 months ago

J. Andersen

Five Stars

a great book

Published 10 months ago

Zachery H

Five Stars

Excellent book. Learned a lot from it and doesn't contain a bunch of fluff to put you to sleep.

Published 1 year ago

Bert Hooyman

Good and not so good.

I hoped to learn a little Go whilst brushing up my compiler/interpreter skills. I succeeded on the latter, as the book applies the Pratt algorithm for top-down operator precedence...Read more

Published 1 year ago

MR CN REDDEN

Outdated Runtime Approach

Very disappointed that it covers Tree-Walking-Interpreter, which is essentially a dead approach in the modern era. Was expecting a book at least to look at Bytecode VMs.Read more

Published 1 year ago

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