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Basically, instead of asking 'why?', this flips it to 'why not?'. Good point.

Agree, C's legacy is enormous.

thanks, that's a great way to put it!

I'm curious about the community's thoughts on whether learning C is still valuable in today's world. Here are some of my personal points in favor of learning C:

1. there's a lot of literature on the fundamentals that use C/C++ in examples, and the Linux kernel is still primarily written in C

2. as Dennis Ritchie said, "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." I believe that's the Lindy effect at work

3. learning C can open up a deeper understanding of how things work

Interesting, never heard it expressed like that. Thanks for the comment. And simplicity is definitely key.

Absolutely agree, soft skills are crucial. I didn't mean to imply they're less important by listing them last, but I see your point.

Thank you for the implementations! Do you have any suggestions how to test the postscript code on mac/linux? I tried on macos using ghostscript, but I get the following error:

$ gs cat.ps helloworld.txt

Error: /undefined in ARGUMENTS ...

Thanks!

Now also in Scheme (GNU Guile)

That's a good point. Thanks!

Feel free to add your own implementation. :)

It took me a while to finally publish this part. :) If you've waited for a long time for this to happen, thanks for your patience.

It took me a while, but a new article in the series is finally here :)

Thanks for the link

Updated to run under Python 3.7+

The code for the article has been updated to run under Python 3.7+

That's great. Thanks for reading.

Code for the article has been updated to run under Python3.7+

Thanks for reading.

That's great! :) Thank you for sharing this. I plan to update that series soon, so stay tuned :)

Thank you for the kind words! Re the book form: it is a possibility once I'm done writing the series. And thanks for taking the time to read the articles.

Thanks, @bcoughlan. I'm glad you liked it.

Sorry for the shameless plug, but about a year ago I started a series of articles on how to write a simple interpreter called "Let's Build A Simple Interpreter." Take a look, it might be something that you may like: Part 1: https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/ ... Part 9: https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part9/

Good point. I should have counted before posting.

Links to previous articles: http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part2/

http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part3/

Thank you for the kind words.

I started a series of articles called "Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter" which might be what you're looking for:

- http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/

- http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part2/