Robert Nystrom
Auteur van Game Programming Patterns
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A strange mix of high level and low level solutions, but very insightful at times.
As good as GoF, touching different subjects of course, but just as good. More practical, more focused and of course a lot less academic. Worth a reread(self-note).
Programming languages are something of a hobby of mine. Going as far back as undergrad, I’ve written a fair few interpreters and compilers over the years. I’ve never really gotten beyond a strong basic level, but I’ve always wanted to. Crafting Interpreters is a great book for exactly that.
The book essentially walks you through two styles of interpreter of the same language: just an AST walking style written in Java (the sort I’ve done a few times) and then a much more optimized one based on bytecode. There was something to learn on both sections though, since the the introduced language (lox) includes higher order functions and closures—certainly more interesting bits of languages to implement.
The latter really was the more interesting to me and really makes me want to go out and try building something more like that.
I think they biggest weakness of the book was in some ways also a strength: the author wrote all the code for the book before writing the prose—and then made sure that the book contained every line of the final interpreters. That does lead to some rather repetitive sections of adding very similar code to each new function, but so it goes.
Overall, well worth the read if you’re into programming languages, or really programming in general.… (meer)
The book essentially walks you through two styles of interpreter of the same language: just an AST walking style written in Java (the sort I’ve done a few times) and then a much more optimized one based on bytecode. There was something to learn on both sections though, since the the introduced language (lox) includes higher order functions and closures—certainly more interesting bits of languages to implement.
The latter really was the more interesting to me and really makes me want to go out and try building something more like that.
I think they biggest weakness of the book was in some ways also a strength: the author wrote all the code for the book before writing the prose—and then made sure that the book contained every line of the final interpreters. That does lead to some rather repetitive sections of adding very similar code to each new function, but so it goes.
Overall, well worth the read if you’re into programming languages, or really programming in general.… (meer)
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Style: 4/5 - examples and humour
Density: 3/5 - some is new, some is old
Relevancy: 1/5 - can be relevant to current job and future game programming but examples are tied to c
If i ever build a big game i might remember about this book.