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According to Norman Ramsey, Hanson said one of the main things they learned from writing lcc was that C was a lousy language to write a compiler in.

I've read K&R and parts of the Hanson books. They're all excellent but less interesting than most of the Lisp books above, SICP and PAIP in particular.




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