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| #+TITLE: Don't Build Your Own Lisp | |
| I feel somewhat pressed to give a negative review of this book. This | |
| comes from someone who has worked on various Lisp implementations, and | |
| written some amount of C, but that isn't an excuse to be overly harsh. | |
| This book, however, does not provide many nice things to say, and plenty | |
| of un-nice things. My apologies in advance. | |
| First off: God help you if you are going to write your first interpreter | |
| in C of all things. No one I know thinks it's a good idea to /start/ |