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Episode: 4296
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Title: HPR4296: Crafting Interpreters
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4296/hpr4296.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 22:36:52
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4296 for Monday the 20th of January 2025.
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Today's show is entitled Crafting Interpreters.
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It is the first show buying you host Iota and is about two minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, Talk About the Book Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nistrom.
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Hello, this is Iota speaking.
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Today I would like to talk about the book Crafting Interpreters by Robert Limpstrom.
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I have a passion for interpreters and compilers for a long time and always like the right one.
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But never succeed.
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I've read a lot of books about interpreters and compilers but never able to finish it.
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Crafting interpreters is the first book I read cover to cover and understand it and I'm
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able to follow through all the coding and build an interpreter as well as a compiler.
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It is amazing.
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The first half of the book is to build a three-talking working interpreter in Java.
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The second half of the book is to build a bytecode compiler in C. Both of them are for
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a programming language the other called LOX-L-O-X.
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The book is smart because it is based on generic Java and C code and does not specify any
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IDE or make file to use.
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You will have to figure out that yourself.
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That may sound like a hurdle but in fact it is a blessing.
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That makes the code to the book very portable.
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The author has a way to explain compiler concepts in an interesting way.
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The bytecode compiler in the second half of the book implements the following features.
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Virtual machine, closure, class and methods, garbage, collector, etc.
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The book cover itself is already very revealing.
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It is basically a high-level view of the different passes and types of congeneration.
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You can buy the book in different places, both physical copy or e-book.
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However, the book is also available for free at craftinginterpreters.com.
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I would say this book is a labor of love by the author, highly recommended.
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Iota signing off.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording podcasts, click on our contribute link to find out how
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easy it leads.
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Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by an honesthost.com, the internet archive
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and our syncs.net.
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On this address status, today's show is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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