Abelson and Python

[Fredrik Lundh]

Chris Mellon wrote;

> Now, writing a compiler/interpreter from the ground up is a more
> valuable experience, but does it really matter if the language is the
> same one you wrote the compiler in? It gets harder the more
> complicated the syntax and semantics of the language are, but, say,
> python 1.0 would probably be a suitable goal for coursework.

I'd pick mini-python plus basic classes:

    http://hetland.org/python/mini-python.php

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