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		alabhyajindal 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Build a Compiler in Five Projects I heard that the ML version was a translation of the C version, and is thus not easy to follow along. Or it may have been the other way around!

pjmlp 20 days ago [–]

The other way around, the best book is the ML version, the other two try to do ML in the respective language.

Ironically, now with modern Java you can that much easier than the approach done in the Java variant back in 1997.

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