Entangled life by Merlin Sheldrake shows how, amongst many other amazing facts, tightly integrated mushrooms and trees are. Everything about this is amazing to me.
> Maybe... MAYBE you don't have to read this book.
Where did I say I have to read it or that the author should learn another language? Nowhere. I said I wish it wasn't using C so that I could read it more easily.
Now I can finally reply: that makes sense, and in hindsight is quite obvious, thanks. My general lack of knowledge in this area is a part of why I'd like to study it more, but preferably I'd like to use a language I'm already comfortable with. C is just very far removed from everything I have use for and am interested in.
Sure, then it would be the same thing just with ML (which I pers. would prefer to C, but yeah). Pseudocode to explain the idea would be ideal, then you can work through the book in a familiar language.
C is fine, it's just not ideal for me to learn C which I have no use for and learn a new skill at the same time.
> because it’s the lingua franca of conversations about compilers and interpreters
There are many materials, compilers, and interpreters that use ocaml and haskell, for example. C isn't the only one. That's why I'd prefer pseudo code instead of C, so that I could use this book without learning a specific language only for it.
I don't know C and have no intention of learning it, so I'd prefer pseudocode that I can read without already knowing C or investing time into learning C just for this book.