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I think it's right to emphasise 'your first interpreter', and it does depend on the person's prior proficiency with C and language design/implementation. It's perfectly doable though, my first compiler (technically a transpiler) was written in C, and it worked well although I was hardly a C n00b.

(Just a polite other viewpoint)

Thanks, that's a good point. If it's also a book for learning C, I'd think the proficiency of the audience varies substantially then.

> If it's also a book for learning C

that would be a car crash!

(edited cos it came across a bit horrible unintentionally)

Updated the link, thank you!

There are some many things wrong with this book but this critique is really bad and I wish people would stop sharing it.

It starts with: >> First off: God help you if you are going to write your first interpreter in C of all things.

How can anybody take this seriously.