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.
How is type inference for "moving fast and breaking things" but not for building solid and reliable things? I'm not quite sure we're talking about the same concept here.
> 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.