Arne Martin Aurlien: Implement an Esoteric Programming Language for Fun | JSConf EU 2014
Inside most of us there’s a befunge programmer who wants to come out. When doing day-to-day “serious” programming it is usually a good idea to keep them as firmly locked up as possible. Let’s ignore that instinct for a little while.
In this talk I’ll try to convince you why you should try writing a completely impractical interpreter of your own. I’ll also use terms like “lexer”, “tokenizer” and “parser” at their widest possible definitions.
Transcript/slides at: http://2014.jsconf.eu/speakers/arne-martin-aurlien-implement-an-esoteric-programming-language-for-fun-and-well-fun.html
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