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If you find that interesting, you should probably take a look at this:

http://michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction

I had fun following along with him. Now, if he (or I can get my shot at it finished) can ever finish working on the byte-code based version!

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You might enjoy Lisp in Small Pieces. Is one of my favorite books

The book is in two parts. The first starts from a simple evaluation function and enriches it with multiple name spaces, continuations and side-effects with commented variants, while at the same time the language used to define these features is reduced to a simple lambda-calculus.

The second part focuses more on implementation techniques and discusses precompilation for fast interpretation: threaded code or bytecode; compilation towards C. Some extensions are also described such as dynamic evaluation, reflection, macros and objects.

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0521545668

Great book, although I found it hard parse sometimes (compared to say the later chapters of SICP) which I suspect is because it is translated from french. Either way, it puts so much information in one place, it is incredibly valuable.

If anyone's considering it, now is the time. I've watched it for the last five months. The used price almost always hovers at 80 dollars. It is currently 54 dollars. I'd buy it myself if it weren't just going to sit on my shelf, unopened, the next five months.

Looks very interesting; I already had a shot at implementing a subset of scheme using F# (https://github.com/fabriceleal/Pang), it would be very interesting to follow this series and check the differences between my and his implementations.

I would also find very interesting to see a step-by-step series on compiling scheme (with macros included) using llvm. I never tried really hard to look for one, though.

Really loved the sense of community that sprouted up around those articles :) I remember everyone following each other's projects on github, and the discussions in the comments on the blog posts. Good memories :)

I should finish my Ada version sometime... Or just start a new project haha

Thank you for this link.

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