I learned HTML and then I learned programming. Have been a JAVA
programmer for a bunch of years and now I have been working on Rails
for more than six months. Never worked on C though.
But I want to understand what is being discussed. I guess I need a
computer science book which describes what exactly interpreting means.
Also the other day some guys were talking about ERB being interpreted
but liquid (shopify guys) not being interpreted. I couldn’t follow
that too. Also I can’t follow what is “Iron ruby”. I mean what does it
mean to have ruby being ported to .NET .
Could you please refer me a book or two which explains these computer
science fundamentals. Also note that I don’t have much background to
build up on so please refer books which are not too geeky.
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| I learned HTML and then I learned programming. Have been a JAVA
| programmer for a bunch of years and now I have been working on Rails
| for more than six months. Never worked on C though.
|
| I am having trouble understanding this thread.
| http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/d69165ad2b711c2c#
|
| But I want to understand what is being discussed. I guess I need a
| computer science book which describes what exactly interpreting means.
Interpreted: translated into machine code every time the source is
executed.
Compiled: ‘Translated’ into the machine code once, and then executed
from this object code (C) / byte code (Java) / Intermediary Language
(.NET).
| Also the other day some guys were talking about ERB being interpreted
| but liquid (shopify guys) not being interpreted. I couldn’t follow
| that too. Also I can’t follow what is “Iron ruby”. I mean what does it
| mean to have ruby being ported to .NET .
IronRuby is ‘just’ an implementation of Ruby for the .NET language
platform (IIRC, they use C#). It is about the same as writing Ruby in C,
and comparable to JRuby, a Ruby implementation using the Java language.
| Could you please refer me a book or two which explains these computer
| science fundamentals. Also note that I don’t have much background to
| build up on so please refer books which are not too geeky.
I think the Red Dragon Book is the de facto standard work on compiler
theory.[0]
However, from what I know, the book as anything but non-geeky…
N.B.: This is all from a layman’s perspective, too.
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but liquid (shopify guys) not being interpreted. I couldn’t follow
that too. Also I can’t follow what is “Iron ruby”. I mean what does it
mean to have ruby being ported to .NET .
Could you please refer me a book or two which explains these computer
science fundamentals. Also note that I don’t have much background to
build up on so please refer books which are not too geeky.
It’s probably out of print, but ‘Programming Languages - An
Interpreter-Based Approach’ by Samuel N. Kamin is my fave book on the
subject. It’s a treatment of several families of programming languages
(functional, OO, Lisp, etc.) which presents simplified interpreters
and includes a chapter on Compilation. The code is in Pascal but don’t
be put off by that as it’s clearly documented and Pascal is a very
easy language to understand.
There’s probably also a discussion of these and other concepts in
‘Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs’ by Abelson and
Sussman, but as my copy seems to have gone MIA I can’t check at the
moment.
I learned HTML and then I learned programming. Have been a JAVA
programmer for a bunch of years and now I have been working on Rails
for more than six months. Never worked on C though.
Could you please refer me a book or two which explains these computer
science fundamentals. Also note that I don’t have much background to
build up on so please refer books which are not too geeky.
If you’re familiar with Java, you should be able to make good progress
with this:
Programming Language Processors in Java - Compilers and Interpreters
by David A Watt, Deryck F Brown
Could you please refer me a book or two which explains these computer
science fundamentals. Also note that I don’t have much background to
build up on so please refer books which are not too geeky.
