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Congratulations on the anniversary of the book! I don't think I knew any go when I started to read the book. I might have tried out the playground but nothing serious. I just did it on the fly. I chose to write the code in C because that way I challenged myself to actually think about what I am doing, instead of copying the code as it is, which turned out to be a good call.

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That's really smart. I think that's a good way to do even if it's a non-language-specific book.

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I am a 66-year-old retired programmer.

I just finished this month of reading and coding along with reading your remarkable book, which gave me moments of real joy.

I rediscovered the joy of this job, which I had kind of lost after many years of backend programming in C#.

At the same time, the book helped me to learn more about the GO language, which I can now say that I have fallen in love with.

I'm ready to "attack" your other book "Write a Compiler in GO".

Thank you.

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Thank *you*! You just made me smile in a coffee shop.

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Those books made me fall in love with lexers/parsers ! Its one of those moments where the magic of DSLs slowly unravelled in front of me and blew my mind how simple it was to write my own

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bookmarking this in https://okbookmarks.com

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