Chapter 17: Final Thoughts
After learning so much about building a programming language, you may want to reflect on what you have learned and think about areas you might want to study in more depth. This chapter reflects on the main topics presented in the book and gives you some food for thought by covering the following topics:
- Reflecting on what was learned from writing this book
- Deciding where to go from here
- Exploring references for further reading
Let's start with what extra bonuses could be learned from this book.
Reflecting on what was learned from writing this book
We have learned some useful things from writing this book. Among other things, we concluded that Java is very suitable for writing compilers at this point. Sure, Andrew ...
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