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Marianne Writes a Programming Language

No One Just Designs a Programming Language (featuring Thorsten Ball)

Marianne ponders the consequences of different design decisions and how to direct her research through an enormous amount of information and choices. Thorsten Ball, author of Writing a Compiler in Go, talks about his experiences designing Monkey and some of his regrets in retrospect. More from Thorsten Ball's can be found at thorstenball.com. Writing an Interpreter in Go can be purchased at interpreterbook.com. Writing a Compiler in Go can be found compilerbook.com.

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