The Smalltalk Blue Book https://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf is great (introduces the language, explains usage) but also has this cute mouse explanation!
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On thinking of books like software, treating them as evolving artifacts, and URLs versus paper book publishers: https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Memos/Books-as-Software/
Bril is a cute intermediate language for teaching (think simplified LLVM IR): https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/bril.html
The idea of providing a standard JSON format to help students write basic passes is really elegant.
Sometimes programming tools are so good that you miss them when using other languages. I see these mentioned the most frequently:
* IntelliJ (for Java)
* Slime+Emacs (for Common Lisp)
* Pharo (for Smalltalk)
I'm struck that they all have bespoke UIs.