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This weekend for a bit of fun I've been following along with "Writing an Interpreter in Go" by

@thorstenball

, but I've been writing the code in Elixir instead:

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GitHub - radar/writing-an-interpreter-in-elixir

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ryanbigg.au

@ryanbigg

Oct 7, 2018

First time writing anything like this in my programming career, probably due to _zero_ formal CS qualifications? It's really fun figuring out how to map the code from Go to Elixir.

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You would be surprised - even many CS courses skip writing toy interpreters/type systems/compiler implementations. It's pretty egregious, because it's so foundational to what we do!

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It's so cool when you begin to realise that it just is mainly just a bunch of recursive tree traversals :)