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The stuff at https://github.com/besm6 is great! Being much later, the programs are substantial, but it gives a better sense than the simplified examples like https://github.com/xldenis/besm/blob/master/examples/chapter... .

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Indeed, I only provided direct translations of the programs Ershov and Knuth wrote, I never did much in the way work beyond that, my focus was mainly on recreating the compiler itself.

For that I actually copied the pages of the book into the the comments of the code: https://github.com/xldenis/besm/blob/master/compile-pp/src/B...

Ahh, I hadn't found that one! That's a great example, thanks for highlighting it.

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