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Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
If you've only dabbled briefly in Go, you might think that its nil is
analogous to the good ol' "billion dollar mistake"
known as null. I thought so, too, up until just a few weeks ago when I
decided to make a pass through Thorsten Ball's neat little book
Writing …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
I love programming languages, both using them and implementing them. As such, I found the concept of learning Go by creating a programming language to be just delightful. And, to put it briefly, it was. Let's talk about Thorsten Ball's book on interpreters. In Go.
Writing an Interpreter in Go …