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Several weeks and 156 commits later, my C compiler is now compiling a Turing-complete subset of C!

Introduction to CLOS from other OOP backgrounds: http://t.co/2EcpGFGuga

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x86 assembly can be written with the src operand first, or the dest. My docs just say the '1st operand'. http://t.co/avRG1iS0jW Argh!

Stack Overflow is huge! In the last 120 days, they've question-banned 25,000 users: http://t.co/4uaf01nncq Huge community scale challenges.

Stack Overflow is huge! In the last 120 days, 25,000 users were question-banned! http://t.co/4uaf01nncq

no member named 'assigment' in 'struct Syntax'; did you mean 'assignment'? -- I love compilers that do fuzzy-matching for suggestions.

How to Write Seemingly Unhygienic and Referentially Opaque Macros with Syntax-rules http://t.co/zMetrJ0hyA

Amazed to learn that you can implement `quote` as a macro! http://t.co/b1yNDRxK0V

What should we expect in a language's sorting implementation? http://t.co/3fK0l3vTig

Dynamic scope in Python: https://github.com/agrif/parameterize Nifty and definitely useful when you need it.

It's a shame there aren't any mature tools for mutation testing in Python. It provides really valuable data.

Added variable declarations to my baby C compiler! It's a fantastic way to get familiar with low level details.

Some examples of the astounding expressiveness of macros: http://t.co/iUcB87ttTq

R has "first class environments + fexpr equivalents + almost lexical scope". Wow, newLisp was the only language I knew with fexprs.