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wizz for coading! by marnanel (archiveofourown.org)
submitted 11 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am not familiar with Nigel Molesworth books beyond a quick skim of Wikipedia, but this had me hooked right from the first illustration.

A parody of the venerable Dragon Book by Aho, Lam, Sethi & Ullman in the style of Ronal Searle

Chapter 1 reminds me of A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 11 months ago

marnanel knows their stuff