username3720

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   by username3720 11y ago

   I'd strongly advise people to read K&R C as maybe their second or third book and mostly for historical purposes and not because it's particularly great for learning the language. The exercises are quite fun, however. You will
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   by username3720 12y ago

   I think Lua is more related to the Oberon family than Go is. Lua's control constructs are reminiscent of Modula-2. What Lua has done with tables and modules is pretty elegant and I can see more of the highlights of the Oberon family in
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   by username3720 12y ago

   A fun paper, but it neglected to explain its means of modularization. I had to read the language implementation to discover the 'require' keyword used to import functions. Projects like Mercury ( http://mercurylang.org&#
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   by username3720 12y ago

   The Oberon/Modula-2 family happens to be among my favorite languages. It's one of the easier languages to implement and Amazon happens to have cheap Modula-2 compiler books. Wirth's own Compiler Construction book is free, tho