I've written a toy Lisp interpreter that eventually evolved into a toy Lisp compiler. It's a gratifying exercise that I'd recommend for every programmer.
I couldn't agree more. Writing my own interpreter https://github.com/cninja/pEigthP provided many challenges but I think it was one of the most enjoyable "toy projects" that I have done. Also seeing the look on someones face when I say I wrote something to allow me to embed lisp into PHP is priceless.
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I've written a toy Lisp interpreter that eventually evolved into a toy Lisp compiler. It's a gratifying exercise that I'd recommend for every programmer.
I couldn't agree more. Writing my own interpreter https://github.com/cninja/pEigthP provided many challenges but I think it was one of the most enjoyable "toy projects" that I have done. Also seeing the look on someones face when I say I wrote something to allow me to embed lisp into PHP is priceless.
Likewise - I did this as part of a hackathon earlier this year - thoroughly enjoyed seeing how all the pieces fitted together.