2024-03-11 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010) Total comment counts : 18 Summary This article discusses the importance and basic concepts of compilers and interpreters. It focuses on the syntax and semantics of Scheme programs and compares Scheme syntax to other programming languages. The article also introduces a simplified version of Scheme called the Lispy Calculator, which only uses five syntactic forms. It explains the allowable expressions in Lispy Calculator and describes what a language interpreter does, including the parsing component and the internal representation of the program....