[Python-Dev] Free Icon books

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Sun Jun 6 00:32:18 EDT 2004


"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:

> I especially recommend the "Design & Implementation" book, which is
> out of print.  There are few good books about the implementations of
> very high level languages, and this book is excellent.  It no longer
> matches the current implementation of Icon in several respects, but
> who cares <wink>.

Cool, thanks.

Ah, the good old days: "Since the initial work was done on a PDP-11/70,
with a user address space of only 128K bytes (combined instruction and
data spaces), the size of the implementation was of significant
concern."

-- 
KBK



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