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		IMAYousaf on Aug 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginner... I am a huge fan of Build Your Own Lisp in C. I knew how to program since I was a kid. It was all inelegant but working code. Using this website's walk through helped me to refine my understanding. Anecdotally, I suggested it to 2 beginners I knew, and they found it very intuitive. http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

earenndil on Aug 1, 2019 [–]

I started going through it, and thought it was nice until the author suggested using his parser combinator library.

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